Exodus: The Helium Sea by Peter F Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I may be exactly the right person for these two books. Far future space opera with extensively-developed worldbuilding, many characters, wild transhumanism, interesting quasi-immortality, and scope and scale to choke a horse.

It's taking Peter Hamilton's previous scales and scopes and making them look paltry in comparison.

And me? I read this and feel immense sadness that I can hardly find any new SF these days that GO THERE. Maybe a few here and there, but in general, it's all pretty tame. This one has ties to the near future but sends us as far into the future as anything Stephen Baxter did.

I can't help but be immensely impressed.

Manage your expectations. If you want war and the very spirit of humanity represented in the far future, and don't want Warhammer, then this is definitely worth your time.

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