The Neutronium Alchemist

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The Neutronium Alchemist

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Author(s):

Peter F Hamilton

First Pub:

1997

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2024

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

30 chapters

Internal ID:

14118

Series:

The Reality Dysfunction
The Naked God

Night's Dawn*

#2 of 4

Night's Dawn*

A series of science fiction novels by Peter F Hamilton. Originally three novels but was broken down into six when released to paperback. A part of the Confederation series that consists this series as some short stories.

View this series in the book list

1) The Reality Dysfunction
2) The Neutronium Alchemist
3) The Naked God
4) A Second Chance at Eden

First Sentence:

It seemed to Louise Kavanagh as though the fearsome midsummer heat had persisted for endless, dreary weeks rather than just the four Duke-days since the last meagre shower of rain.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

There's no trace of it, none at all."

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Characters

Joshua Calvert - (Lady MacBeth) - Captain
Melvyn Ducharme - (Lady MacBeth) - Fusion Specialist
Ashly Hanson - (Lady MacBeth) - Pilot
Sarha Mitcham - (Lady MacBeth) - Systems Specialist
Dahybi Yadev - (Lady MacBeth) - Node Specialist
Beaulieu - (Lady MacBeth) - Cosmonik
Syrinx - (Oenone) - Captain
Ruben - (Oenone) - Fusion Systems
Oxley - (Oenone) - Pilot
Cacus - (Oenone) - Life Support
Edwin - (Oenone) - Toroid Systems
Serina - (Oenone) - Toroid Systems
Tyla - (Oenone) - Cargo Officer
André Duchamp - (Villeneuve's Revenge) - Captain
Desmond Lafoe - (Villeneuve's Revenge) - Fusion Specialist
Madeleine Collum - (Villeneuve's Revenge) - Node Specialist
Erick Thakrar - (Villeneuve's Revenge) - Systems Specialist/CNIS undercover agent
Meyer - (Udat) - Captain
Cherri Barnes - (Udat) - Cargo Officer
Layia - (Far Realm) - Captain
Furay - (Far Realm) - Pilot
Endron - (Far Realm) - Systems Specialist
Tilia - (Far Realm) - Node Specialist
Meredith Saldana - (Arikara) - Rear-Admiral/Squadron Commander
Grese - (Arikara) - Lieutenant/Squadron Intelligence Officer
Rhoecus - (Arikara) - Lieutenant/Voidhawk Liaison
Kroeber - (Arikara) - Commander
Kyle Prager - (Beezling) - Captain
Peter Adul - (Beezling) - Alchemist Team Physicist
Ione Saldana - (Tranquillity) - Lord of Ruin
Alkad Mzu - (Tranquillity) - Inventor of the Alchemist
Parker Higgens - (Tranquillity) - Director Laymil Project
Oski Katsura - (Tranquillity) - Laymil Project Electronics Division Chief
Kempster Getchell - (Tranquillity) - Laymil Project Astronomer
Monica Foulkes - (Tranquillity) - ESA Agent
Lady Tessa - (Tranquillity) - ESA Head of Station
Samuel - (Tranquillity) - Edenist Intelligence Agent
Pauline Webb - (Tranquillity) - CNIS Agent
Father Horst Elwes - (Tranquillity) - Priest/Refugee
Jay Hilton - (Tranquillity) - Refugee
Kelly Tirrel - (Tranquillity) - Rover Reporter
Lieria - (Tranquillity) - Kiint
Haile - (Tranquillity) - Juvenile Kiint
Rubra - (Valisk) - Habitat Personality
Dariat - (Valisk) - Horgan's Possessor
Kiera Salter - (Valisk) - Marie Skibbow's Possessor
Stanyon - (Valisk) - Council Member
Rocio Condra - (Valisk) - Possessor Blackhawk Mindor
Bonney Lewin - (Valisk) - Hunter
Tolton - (Valisk) - Fugitive
Tatiana - (Valisk) - Fugitive
Samual Aleksandrovich - (Trafalgar) - First Admiral Confederation Navy
Lalwani - (Trafalgar) - Admiral/CNIS Chief
Maynard Khanna - (Trafalgar) - Captain/First Admiral Staff Pfficer
Motela Kolhammer - (Trafalgar) - Admiral/1st Fleet Commander
Pierce Gilmore - (Trafalgar) - CNIS Research Division Director
Jacqueline Couteur - (Trafalgar) - Possessor
Murphy Hewlett - (Trafalgar) - Confederation Marine Lieutenant
Jed Hinton - (Koblat) - Deadnight
Beth - (Koblat) - Deadnight
Gari Hinton - (Koblat) - Jed's sister
Navar - (Koblat) - Jed's half sister
Ikela - (Ayacucho) - Owner of T'Opingtu Company/Partizan Leader
Liol - (Ayacucho) - Owner of Quantum Serendipity
Voi - (Ayacucho) - Ikela's daughter
Prince Lambert - (Ayacucho) - Captain of Starship Tekas
Dan Malindi - (Ayacucho) - Partizan Leader
Kaliva Lamu - (Ayacucho) - Partizan Leader
Feira Ile - (Ayacucho) - Ayacucho SD Commander/Partizan Leader
Cabral - (Ayacucho) - Media Magnate/Partizan Leader
Mrs Nateghi - (Ayacucho) - Lawyer
Lodi Shalasha - (Ayacucho) - Garissan radical
Eriba - (Ayacucho) - Garissan radical
Kole - (Ayacucho) - Socialite
Shea - (Ayacucho) - Prince Lambert's girlfriend
Quinn Dexter - (Jesup) - Messiah of the Light Bringer sect
Lawrence Dillon - (Jesup) - Disciple
Twelve-T - (Jesup) - Gang Lord
Bonham - (Jesup) - Disciple
Shemilt - (Jesup) - Disciple/SD Commander
Dwyer - (Jesup) - Disciple/Systems Specialist
Louise Kavanagh - (Norfolk) - Refugee
Genevieve Kavanagh - (Norfolk) - Refugee
Luca Comar - (Norfolk) - Grant Kavanagh's possessor
Marjorie Kavanagh - (Norfolk) - Louise's mother
Mrs Charlsworth - (Norfolk) - Kavanagh sisters' nanny
Carmitha - (Norfolk) - Romany
Titreano - (Norfolk)
Celina Hewson - (Norfolk) - Louise's aunt
Roberto Hewson - (Norfolk) - Louise's cousin
Ralph Hiltch - (Ombey) - ESA Head of Station/Lalonde
Cathal Fitzgerald - (Ombey) - Ralph's deputy
Dean Folan - (Ombey) - ESA G66 Division
Will Danza - (Ombey) - ESA G66 Division
Kirsten Saldana - (Ombey) - Princess of Ombey
Roche Skark - (Ombey) - ESA Director
Jannike Dermot - (Ombey) - ISA Director
Landon McCullock - (Ombey) - Police Commissioner
Diana Tiernan - (Ombey) - Police Technology Division Chief
Admiral Farquar - (Ombey) - Royal Navy/Ombey Commander
Nelson Akroid - (Ombey) - Armed Tactical Squad Captain
Finnuala O'Meara - (Ombey) - Rover Reporter
Hugh Rosler - (Ombey) - DataAxis Technician
Neville Latham - (Ombey) - Exnall's Chief Inspector
Jamie Palmer - (Ombey) - Royal Marine Colonel
Annette Ekelund - (Ombey) - Possessor
Gerald Skibbow - (Ombey) - Refugee
Dr Riley Dobbs - (Ombey) - Royal Navy Personality Debrief Psychology Expert
Jansen Kovak - (Ombey) - Royal Navy medical institute nurse
Moyo - (Ombey) - Possessor
Stephanie Ash - (Ombey) - Possessor
Cochrane - (Ombey) - Possessor
Rana - (Ombey) - Possessor
Tina Sudol - (Ombey) - Possessor
Jezzibella - (New California) - Mood Fantasy Artist
Leroy Octavius - (New California) - Jezzibella's Manager
Libby - (New California) - Jezzibella's Dermal Technology Expert
Al - (New California) - Brad Lovegrove's Possessor
Avram Harwood III - (New California) - Mayor of San Angeles
Emmet Mordden - (New California) - Organization Lieutenant
Silvano Richmann - (New California) - Organization Lieutenant
Mickey Pileggi - (New California) - Organization Lieutenant
Patricia Mangano - (New California) - Organization Lieutenant
Gus Remar - (New California) - Rover Reporter
Kingsley Pryor - (New California) - Lieutenant Commander/Confederation Navy
Luigi Balsmao - (New California) - Commander Organization Fleet
Cameron Leung - (New California) - Possessor blackhawk Zahan
Oscar Kearn - (New California) - Captain Organization frigate Urschel
Alastair II - (Kulu) - The King
Simon - Duke of Salion - (Kulu) - Chairman Security Commission
Lord Kelman Mountjoy - (Kulu) - Foreign Office Minister
Lady Phillipa Oshin - (Kulu) - Prime Minister
Admiral Lavaquar - (Kulu) - Defence Chief
Prince Howard - (Kulu) - Kulu Corporation President
Prince Noton - (Kulu) - Ex-president Kulu Corporation
Gelai - (Nyvan) - Possessor/Garissa genocide victim
Ngong - (Nyvan) - Possessor/Garissa genocide victim
Omain - (Nyvan) - Possessor/Garissa genocide victim
Richard Keaton - (Nyvan) - Data Security Expert
Baranovich - (Nyvan) - Organization Lieutenant
Adrian Redway - (Nyvan) - ESA Head of Station
Olton Haaker - (Confederation) - Assembly President
Jeeta Anwar - (Confederation) - Chief Presidential Aide
Mae Ortlieb - (Confederation) - Presidential Science Aide
Cayeaux - (Confederation) - Edenist Ambassador
Sir Maurice Hall - (Confederation) - Kulu Kingdom Ambassador
Wing-Tsit Chong - (Edenists) - Edenism's Founder
Athene - (Edenists) - Syrinx's mother
Astor - (Edenists) - Ambassador to the Kulu Kingdom
Sinon - (Edenists) - Syrinx's father

Added: 31-Jul-2024

Last Updated: 21-Oct-2024

24-May-2016

Tantor Audio

Audiobook

Date Issued:

24-May-2016

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$22.57

Length:

40 hrs 22 min (1172 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 8 Oct 2024 - 20 Oct 2024

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

43712

Publisher:

Tantor Audio

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

John Lee - Narration

From audible.com:

The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers but now follow a far-from-divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously overstretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night.

In such desperate times, the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr. Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist so that she can complete her 30-year-old vendetta to slay a star. This means that Joshua Calvert has to find Dr. Mzu and bring her back before the Alchemist can be reactivated. But he's not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device.

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The Reality Dysfunction

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The Neutronium Alchemist

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The Naked God

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A Second Chance at Eden

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Author(s)

Peter F Hamilton
Birth: 02 Mar 1960 Oakham, Rutland, England, UK

Notes:

From The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence:

PETER F. HAMILTON was born in Rutland, England, in 1960 and still lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987 and has published short stories in a number of magazines and anthologies. His other books include the Greg Mandel novels: Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder, and The Nano Flower. The epic story begun in The Reality Dysfunction continues with The Neutronium Alchemist, which Warner Aspect will publish in April and May 1998.

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