A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton

Wikipedia has a handy synopsis of each story: Published by Macmillan UK 1996-2000, with matching covers by Jim Burns. The Naked God) plus A Second Chance at Eden and The Confederation Handbook. The Night’s Dawn Trilogy ( The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and As Hamilton points out in his intro, diligent readers who compare the stories to the original magazine pieces will notice they’ve been changed slightly to match the Confederation timeline of the novels. The author includes a 1-2 page timeline summary before each tale, filling in the narrative gaps. They take place between 2070 to 2586, and appear here according to the internal chronology of the Confederation Universe. The stories in A Second Chance at Eden give us glimpses into Confederation prior to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter, two of the primary characters in the Night’s Dawn trilogy.

Hamilton first explored the Confederation Universe and the Affinity tech in a series of short pieces published in 19, and when the first books in Night’s Dawn, The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist, started hitting bestseller lists in Britain he released his first collection.Ī Second Chance at Eden gathered all the early tales plus two new novellas (“A Second Chance at Eden” and “The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa”) and a new short story, “New Days Old Times.” The first piece in the series, “Sonnie’s Edge,” was adapted as an episode of Tim Miller’s Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots in 2019.Ī Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Set in a sprawling far-future timeline known as the Confederation Universe, it was a huge departure from his early gritty SF noir. Hamilton made a name for himself in the early 90s with a popular SF series featuring Greg Mandel, a veteran of a tactical psychic unit in the British army who becomes a psychic detective in a near-future Britain where the messy collapse of a communist government has left the country in ruins ( Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder, and The Nano Flower).īy 1998 he had a bestselling space opera series on his hands, the Night’s Dawn trilogy. Hamilton (adapted for Love, Death & Robots, 2019)

A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton