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The Naked God
The Naked God
The Naked God
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The Naked God

Written by Peter F. Hamilton

Narrated by John Lee

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The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the "possessed" to infiltrate more worlds.


Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind which hasn't been seen by humankind for six hundred years; then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction. Joshua Calvert and Syrinx fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God, which an alien race believes holds the key to overthrowing the possessed.

The Naked God is the brilliant climax to Peter F. Hamilton's awe-inspiring Night's Dawn trilogy.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 26, 2016
ISBN9781515970736
The Naked God
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Peter F. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and still lives nearby. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, short-story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Possibly my favorite Hamilton series. Darker than what I'm used to from him but still positive, humans triumphing in adversity. I wish the ending was a little different, but that won't put a damper on the amazing imagination behind the story and exciting characters.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the best of the series. Nice neat wrap up.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I loved this, but geez, thank God I'm finished. :)

    I also fully intended to come back and really review this with a really real review. Really. But I finished it two weeks ago, and I think my relief at just being DONE has overwhelmed any real need to review it. It was a good read. It was a satisfying conclusion. I can definitely see why people would be pissed with the deus ex machina, but with the entire premise of the story, it really didn't annoy me that much -- especially since I was just so relieved to be done. The entire idea in the first place was far-fetched; in some ways, I think you needed to have a deux ex machina just to tie it up, because I can't imagine any plausible way to solve the entire issue otherwise.

    Edit:
    It is now June 10, 2014, two years and five days after I finished this series. I never did come back to review it -- I think, after getting through it, I was so exhausted by it that I didn't have anything to say.

    However, I do look at this series as one of the best I've read, despite how sprawling the universe is and how out of control the characters are. I've returned to it briefly a couple of times intending to re-read it, but never gotten past a couple of chapters. Someday I will return -- which is saying something -- and I'll probably bring with me a reading guide of some sort. There was just too much variation in the characters for me to be able to follow along without taking copious notes and checking a wiki with chapter changes, especially as the series got on.

    Well worth the read, though, and oh, to be able to read it for the first time again. :)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Excellent that there were still surprises and new concepts right to the end. The trilogy is daunting in scale, but rewards those bold enough to take it on.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    “I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?” In "The Naked God" by Peter F. HamiltonHamilton is giving Doc Smith a reboot. That’s what I thought of when I tried to read some of Hamilton back in the day and didn’t like it, namely "Night’s Dawn" trilogy. Everything in the book is the biggest, baddest, most world-ending threat anyone has ever seen—until the next thing shows up in a couple chapters. The alien technology is always perfect and unassailable. And the above excerpt exhibits some hallmarks of the same juvenilia. I’m gonna pass. Also that’s not to mention the super off-putting sexual dynamics in those books. Written in the 90s by the way. Not joking, almost every single female character is a slut and/or brazen nymphomaniac. Except the ones who are soulless demons, well actually some of them are sluts too. The main dude sleeps with much all of them. (Bought in 1999)And they are pretty much all killed or in some way punished exactly in proportion to their sluttiness, except the one who’s loyal to the main dude. I’m all for sex and even occasional "male gaze" in my SF. But this author is or was, completely over the top. "The Naked God", being the final volume of the trilogy, returns to an exacerbated version of the flaws that were so prevalent in the first book’s structure. Once again, we’re seeing events through several hard to connect plot threads, and since the number only swells as the series progressed, the amount of different side stories is truly unwieldy by this point making it a mess by the end of it. And don't get me started on the plot twists: "We just created a bunch of immensely powerful weapons using future knowledge." Now ground them and only copy information on how to build them in an unsupervised asteroid in a unsupervised solar system of your choosing. It's not like that Ultras are nomadic and roam all around known space, and are capable of hacking the locks... (*I know what you're thinking*)All in all I prefer "Doc" Smith.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A good ending to a great trilogy. I loved how all the different stories were tied up, even though I had worried that he was running out of time at the end.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A flawed masterpiece.The flaws are linguistic. Word for word, Hamilton is not the best writer ever born. He sometimes runs two sentences together with a comma, this can be annoying. Also, sometimes you know what he means, but technically he hasn't said it.On the other hand, he a superb story teller, with amazing control over many different strands. The themes are broadly sociological, mainly religion, politics and government, and social stratification. What really struck me, and which have stayed with me in the ten years since I first read it, are the ideas. It's like Arthur C Clarke, Iain M Banks and the internet all taken to the nth degree. Superb!It's a long novel subdivided into three parts rather than a trilogy in the normal sense. There's no point reading this if you haven't read the first two. It's well worth it. Here all secrets are revealed and the Kiint are on top form.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    After reading the first two books in the Night’s Dawn Trilogy, what more could a reader ask for? The conclusion is stunning, magnificent, and intergalactic in scale. The stage is set, the possessed are out, and we have already been introduced to a broad and varied cast of characters, ships, planets, and asteroids. Now Quinn attempts to take control of earth and Louise finds herself embroiled in B7 Earth agency plans to stop him. General Hilch works to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed, a mission joining together Kulu, the Saldana’s black sheep Ione, the Confederation Navy, and the Edenists. After noting the Kiint interest in the Tyrathca’s Sleeping God, Consensus, Tranquility, and the Confederation Navy send Oenone and Lady MacBeth on a mission beyond the Orion Nebula in search of the mysterious piece of technology, one which they hope can help them to resolve the possession crisis. Joshua and Louise continue to grow, new technologies are introduced and explained, and, taking the trilogy to well over a million words, Hamilton provides a conclusion that is intricate, thought-out, and brilliant.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    a fitting conclusion to an awesome trilogy.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hamilton finishes his trilogy with a bang. The novel opens pretty much where the second one closes and it follows the already familiar pattern - a lot of subplots and characters, returning to each in a somewhat random orders; a lot of new characters (and races) showing up (and some of them dying almost immediately). And the observers - more than one race, and being always where they should be to help humanity (or whoever). It was hinted in the earlier books but here this is taken to a whole new level, with pretty much any event being explained with a deus ex machina device (or race, or an observer, or just a blind chance). Which works to some extent (there is nothing that could have worked really) - and excluding the very end. To which I will return shortly.It's another broad picture of the world - with all the problems (humans had not changed that much) and sometimes with the stupid mistakes that only we can do. Battles, destruction, love, interests - you can find anything. Plus space travel, a lot of technical and astronomical talk, the thinking habitats (some of them ending up a lot more surprising and powerful than anyone thought). But at the same time, Hamilton decides to make sure that Joshua has a clean way to the end - emotionally at least - battles and flying and whatsnot is still around but any time when he should have taken a really important decision, something happened and left him with a clear path. Yes - most of those were because other people took the hard decisions but still.Until the very end. I have NO issues whatsoever with the Sleeping God and that it would be there or the way it was important to the story. But Joshua's choices and actions were... probably the best word will be scripted. They all had good reasons but something just sounded more like a "and they lived happily ever after" than the end of this trilogy. And the observers, the knowledge, the Sleeping God and everything else were not forcing these decisions and choices - they were a happy end kind of solution when almost anything else would have been a lot more logical (and satisfactory).Overall, the trilogy is worth reading. Despite the very end - even if the third book was weaker in some ways, it did wrap up most of the tangling ends and finished what the first 2 had started. It is an adventure story on a grand scale but at the same time it builds a possible future that I can just imagine happening (and that is why I wish the choice Joshua made was different). And I am not even upset about the whole observers/deus ex machina elements (as a lot of the reviews and talks I had seen had been) - there was nothing else that could have worked and it did make sense (well... I found some of them unnecessary but...)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Peter Hamilton brought it all together better than I expected in the end, but the literal deus ex machina was both telegraphed from the first book in this huge series and a bit of a cop-out, in my opinion. The saving grace was the richly imagined backdrop of worlds, technologies, and cultures.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It's is a bit unfair to criticize a book called "The Naked God" for an ending that smells more than a little of deus ex machina. But even if that is true, it is telegraphed pretty well, and still satisfyingly surprising. Even more than the other books in the triology, this one is overly long, but still entertaining and engrossing overall.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the third and final book in Hamilton’s three volume Night’s Dawn trilogy, a 3,600 page behemoth to be sure. These are not stand alone novels and must be read not only in sequence, but in continuous, quick succession if you hope to keep on top of the various story threads.I must say, that while I initially enjoyed this work immensely, the novelty and the outstanding hard science fiction concepts and practices began to wear a little thin after about 2,000 pages. Such things as medical and neural nanonics, anti-matter fuel and weaponry, Edenism, sentient habitats and space craft, human possession, non-human species (xenoc) and the various political subdivisions and splinter groups, while captivating for a time, ultimately become second nature. At that point, only the underlying story can support the reader’s attention. While I was not in any way disappointed, as I said, by the time I finished the third book, two months after picking up the first (reading an hour or two every day) I was ready to be done with it.About a third of the way through this final installment, I felt that several of the threads began to take bizarre, and at times ridiculous, turns (Mortonridge disappearance, Valisk dimension shift, to name a couple). I suspect that this could have been a perfectly satisfactory, three volume, 2,000 page story without some of the more extreme twists and turns that quite frankly detracted from my enjoyment of the experience. Glad I read it; glad it’s over.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was a pretty silly book. Last part of the Reality Dysfunction trilogy (preceeded by THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION and THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST), I think the concept is to try and imagine what sort of science might exist that would validate the immortal Christian soul. So, right there, this is NOT really science fiction, more like fantasy.Hamilton's later books about the Confederation universe are not quite so preposterous. I do not recommend this, unless Dan Simmons is your favourite author.