Commonwealth

The commonwealth is a series of fictional novels that were written by Peter F. Hamilton. It starts off in the 24th century a period when cybernetics and biotechnology have progressed to the level where immortality is optional. The saga spans five books which tell two major stories (duology). The inhabitants of the earth have developed a wormhole technology that permits for ease in transportation through space. The commonwealth series is nothing but a space soap opera with a lot of characters and it includes the books Pandora’s star and Judas Unchained. Before these, misspent youth occurs a century or two earlier in the same universe but the author excludes it from the commonwealth saga description as its plot is unrelated. The commonwealth saga occurs 1500 years later through the void Trilogy:-the dreaming void, the temporal void, and the Evolutionary void. The totality of these voids is what comprises the “commonwealth universe.” The Pandora’s Star is the first book to be written in this commonwealth saga duology. It was later followed by Judas Unchained. As mentioned earlier, misspent youth is not part of the saga but it helps set the stage for the saga to occur. Pandora’s star setting is the Intersolar commonwealth which is a 24 century conglomerate of six hundred plus human inhabited planets where colonization by humans is made possible through the wormhole technology. The plot is characterized by numerous subplots but the main plot relates to the discovery of an astronomical anomaly where light from a pair of two stars suddenly disappear. The causal factor has been attributed to a man-made force field which is similar to a Dyson sphere at a larger scale.