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by Peter F Hamilton (Author) "SUZI CRAPPED THE FRANKENSTEIN COCKROACH into the toilet bowl, then pushed the chrome handle halfway down for a short flush ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (Jan 28 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312865805
ISBN-13: 978-0312865801
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15 x 3.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 704 g

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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This is item 3 in The Greg Mandel Series.

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Hamilton concludes his Greg Mandel trilogy, which began with Mindstar Rising (1996) and continued with last fall's A Quantum Murder. Greg is a "psychic detective" who works for the British corporation Event Horizon, a conglomerate that rose to power because of its patents on a unique, universal energy system. Though Greg has retired to his citrus groves, which thrive in globally warmed southern England, he is called back for a final mission when Julia Evans, heir to Event Horizon, receives a mysterious flower whose DNA resembles nothing terrestrial. An alien, benign but large as a world, has crossed the vacuum of space to colonize earth. It must be sent on its way, which Julia and Greg manage with Greg's psychic powers of communication and Julia's near-psychic expression of herself on Event Horizon's advanced software. The already popular series is likely to become more so, with this able conclusion and with the new film Event Horizon. John Mort

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Third in Hamilton's trilogy (Mindstar Rising, 1996; A Quantum Murder, p. 1421) featuring Greg Mandel, of the psi- powered Mindstar Battalion. Now retired, Greg has taken up orange-farming in half-drowned, subtropical, 21st-century England. But then his old friend Julia Evans, of the preeminent Event Horizon corporation, receives a mysterious flower sent by her computer-whiz husband, Royan, who's been missing for eight months. The flower turns out to be extraterrestrial--and highly evolved. Then media manipulator Clifford Jepson of Globecast attempts to peddle scientific information that's clearly beyond current human capabilities. What's going on? It seems that Royan, as Julia discovers, sent a probe to Jupiter to investigate possible alien microbes. Greg, meanwhile, traces the flower via its courier, the high-class whore Charlotte Fielder, who received it from a Celestial Apostle cultist aboard New London, an asteroid that Event Horizon has nudged into Earth orbit. Charlotte is horrified to learn that she's been working for a lethal group of Russian gangsters. Finally, all the movers and shakers converge on New London for a showdown with Royan and a strange, powerful, and immensely dangerous alien. Gratifyingly complex and challenging--indeed, impossible to summarize adequately, what with battles, love stories, vendettas, imponderable aliens, and robust characters: a fine trilogy, sure, but this one's in a class by itself. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still My Favourite., Sep 12 2007

By	William J. Walker "Billyjay" (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Nano Flower (Mass Market Paperback)

I wasn't going to write a review but I was so amazed at the previous reviewers negative comments that I felt moved to add my own.
It has, perhaps, been superseded by the later, grander works, but not in terms of quality.

The major problem with this book, and indeed with the "Greg Mandel Series" as a whole, is that like so many SF authors, the author set the events a little too close to the present. Real history has over-taken the events described.
When reading the books today you have to suspend the natural inclination to see the book as predictive and view it instead, as a kind of parallel alternate history(like "Watchmen" or "The Man in the High Castle").If you can do that there is much to enjoy in the series.
A more minor difficulty is, that this is the third book in the series, and while it is possible to read it without reading the others first, it is not advisable. In fact one of the best features of the books is the way that all the characters grow and change as the story progresses.

The first book in the series("Mindstar Rising") is good and introduces the characters and world very well. The second is a decent enough read, but ultimately not of the standard of the others. This book, the third and final instalment, is the best by far and features some of the the most brilliantly realised SF I've ever read.
A criticism sometimes directed at the later works is that the ride is great but the finish doesn't always match it. In this book he actually exceeds expectations.

Since all three books in the series, put together, are about as long as one instalment of the "Night's Dawn Trilogy" and are as readable as anything he has written since, I would recommend this, and them, to any fan of the author.
In truth the series is a great place to start if you are knew to him; it worked for me.

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3.0 out of 5 stars It could have been great, Sep 26 2002

By	Amberblade (New England, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nano Flower (Mass Market Paperback)

Book 3 of this series, and I'm still reading. But, even if there were more, I'm fairly certain I would have stopped here.
The Nano Flower had great promise. Interesting, if somewhat far-fetched, plot, and several threads running through to hold it all together.
But by the end, I was shaking my head. What happened?
The end was disappointing, and not really worth waiting for. All the suspense about the alien, and when it finally arrived.... Well, it was just sad. So much could have been done with all of the different parts of the end of this book.... But nothing was, really.
As it went along, the story got thinner and thinner. The characters weren't bad, but more could have been done with them.
And the 14, 15 year gap between this one and the last... My question is, why? To show that the characters have grown, and evolved? What's the point if you don't have any idea what happened to them during that time?
And judging by what I read, a few important things happened then that I would have liked explained. I'll give one example. Royan. Last we saw of him, well, he was in bad shape. Suddenly in this book, he's married to Julia, and has children, and has been missing for 8 months. Granted, it's almost explained later, but not well. I don't know about most people, but I was very curious as to how exactly Royan ended up where he is now.
Basically, it was just disappointing to me all the way around.
It could have been great.....But it wasn't.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well conceived but carelessly executed ideas, Mar 12 2001

By	Julian P Killingley (Wakefield, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nano Flower (Mass Market Paperback)

I am new to Peter Hamilton's writing and The Nano Flower is the first of his novels that I have read. I used to be an avid SF reader in the 60s and 70s but found progressively fewer new writers appealed to me. I guess that I make a rather demanding audience but, I am happy to report, Peter Hamilton may well make the grade with me.

Other reviewers make a number of valid points about the book and I don't intend to repeat them save to say that I agree it is let down by a rather limp ending. Hamilton doesn't always play to his strengths or, indeed, recognise a strong character when he creates one. Although I am new to the series I can already see that Hamilton's chief protagonists are often his most wooden creations - I found Greg Mandel and Julia Evans unsatisfying as characters. Perhaps I have done Mr Hamilton a disservice and they were better developed in early books.

On the other hand there are a number of characters who fleetingly come to life - even though they are later discarded by the author. Baronsky is sufficiently fleshed out to be intriguing and, until her liberation from the airship, Charlotte Fielder is also very promising.

The real pleasure of the book is the imaginative development of technology and predictions of future business and political structures. Hamilton has a good mix of familiar global names diversifying into new, but convincing, business lines and minor brands of today emerging as global players. There are also a number of sly and knowing political and regional developments that will amuse British readers but may go unnoticed by others.

All in all I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading other by the author.

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