Lawrence hears stories about the temple of the fallen dragon the holy place of a sect devoted to the worship of a mythical creature. Lawrence is the sergeant of a washedout platoon, taking part in the bungled invasion of yet another human colony world. Lawrence newton always dreamed of adventure amongst the stars. Fallen dragon is a classic standalone novel by science fiction star, peter f. Hamilton born in a colony world in 2310, lawrence newton hankered after the golden era of starships exploring the galaxy. Fallen dragon is a fascinating book with a fast pace, brilliantly realised characters, and a bunch of warring parties that you strangely all feel you should side with. Therefore, taking his skill and applying it to a stand alone book was always going to have an interesting result. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fallen dragon. Fallen dragon is a science fiction novel by british writer peter f. Fallen dragon is the only real stand alone space opera that peter f hamilton has written. Its is other single volume works, and it plays with his usual structure of flashbacks. Hamilton has written space operas from short stories to trilogies to sagas. Now the ultimate prize is within his grasp, but what will he risk to get it.
As of the publication of his 10th novel in 2004, his works had sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Read on fallen dragon is a classic standalone novel by science fiction star, peter f. His series to date are huge multivolume affairs that are as impressive as they are ambitious. In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable. This hefty novel of interstellar war and alien contact in the 25th century, a sort of starship troopers as if written by charles dickens, ranks as one of hamiltons best. Deploying invulnerable twentyfifthcentury soldiers called skins, z.
This acclaimed book by peter f hamilton is available at in several formats for your ereader. But the age of human starflight was drawing to a close, so this hotheaded teenager ran away from home in search of adventure. Hamilton started to come into prominence for his trilogy novel about a psychic detective named greg mandel who was implanted with a biotechnology gland which makes him a living lie detector. This hefty novel of interstellar war and alien contact in the 25th century, a sort of starship troopers as if written by charles dickens, ranks as one of hamilton s best. Fallen dragon in another standout in hamiltons bibliography. Its priests are said to guard treasure large enough to buy lifelong happiness for any man, prompting him to mount an enterprise of his.