The Naked God: Faith - Part 2

by Peter F. Hamilton

On Earth, satanist Quinn Dexter possesses a new army of the damned, using them to initiate The Night's Dawn, the entropic annihilation of all Creation. At the same time, Joshua Calvert, master of the Lady Macbeth , seeks a miracle in a haystack: the truth behind a legend that 15,000 years ago the alien Tyrathca intercepted a single message from unexplored space beyond Orion: "IT SEES THE UNIVERSE. IT CONTROLS EVERYTHING. OUR ARRIVAL WOKE IT." Could...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446605182
• ISBN13: 9780446605182
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Aspect
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.6" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant end to a brilliant series.

If you got this far that means you are already hooked on this series. And what a great series it is.Finishing off something of this scale is always a daunting task. One the one hand there is the danger of leaving lots of loose ends dangling, which annoys some readers and leaves you wondering if there will be further sequels.On the other hand there is a danger in trying to tie up every loose end.Hamilton falls somewhere in-between on this one. He solves the immediate problem in a rather neat way, that puts the loose ends on a long finger, beyong the scope of any immediate sequel.Not everyone will love the end, but for me, it works!

Series Potential

Now that I have completed all 6 books I am feeling a great emptiness. I have become so attached to these characters. What imagination!!!! The movie/TV studios are really missing out on a wonderful idea here. Can't you just see these in a TV series running on for years like Babylon 5 or Startreks.? Please someone, make these books into a series.

All's well that ends well

It's going to be hard talking about this without revealing plot points but I'm going to do my best. If you're reading this you're either reading because you want to see if someone agreed with your opinion or you're curious about the series and want to see if it's worth it. The former folks I can't do anything about but to the latter I can definitely say it's worth the trip. The last book in the series mostly wraps up the myriad of major plots, granted they converge in a way never thought possible but at the same time it was fairly exciting how they all suddenly merged. The action is as rapid as ever and Hamilton deftly keeps things moving to the point where you're literally flipping through pages because the pace is just that rapid. The characters are . . . well, toward the end they start falling into the traps of their own stereotypes, Quinn Dexter was never the most three dimensional of people but he gets tiresomely predictable as the book winds to a close, while even the good characters tend to start wallowing in their own goodness. Still it's a classic good versus evil fight with some wacky philosophy thrown in and generally that requires its character to be living embodiments of goodness or vile evil, Hamilton normally handles it well but sometimes you just want to roll your eyes. The ending isn't as much abrupt as really "deux es machina" but if you can figure out a way to wrap all that up without writing an entirely new book, I'd like to see folks try. It wasn't the perfect ending that I was hoping for but at the same time it didn't ruin the book for me like others are claiming. All in all the entire series is a very satisfying experience, it's sort of sad to finish it since if you've been following this since the beginning it's been nearly three years and over three thousand pages, this people good or bad start to become sort of like part of your family. Hamilton should be praised for making one of the best future histories to come along for a long time, it's detailed and more importantly it's a place (well before that whole possession thing) that I wouldn't mind living in, full of action and adventure and political intrigue, he could theoretically mine the setting for stories for years. I don't think since Larry Niven's Known Space series have we seen that. Is the series perfect? No, it's not, but there isn't any single problem that I could see that made the books less worthy or anything that made want to stop reading. There was something for everyone here and what we got was one of the greatest SF epics of the last ten or so years that raised a bunch of interesting concepts (and distilled a bunch more, Hamilton wasn't utterly original but it's what you do with the concepts that counts), was vastly entertaining and entirely readable (except when you skip a few years in between reading, don't make that mistake) and it's a series who's reputation will only grow in the years to come.

The ending fit the series

Peter Hamilton created a universe filled with wonders, such as the Edenist culture. Throughout every word of this series, I was struck by the wonderful job he did in making the outgrowth of our society today work in painting a realistic picture of our culture in several hundred years.The technology fit well with the view he painted. It was neither too wondrous nor too annoying. Everything he wrote fit within his sense of our future history.This book finally wraps up the entire series, revealing previous hidden secrets that tantalized you throughout the earlier books. The ending, which many people appear to rant about, wrapped up the series quite well in my opinion. Not to spoil the book, but it wrapped up the possession problem in the only way that really could have solved it in any respectable time or way. It also leaves the struggle for humanity's resolution of the problem of the beyond wide open. Humanity must still deal with the fact that when they die they will enter the beyond. People throughout the human race must still be taught to believe in themselves. What happened to all of the human stars is a thing of wonder, and still makes me smile.All in all, this is a wonderful series, that is concluded in a wonderful way. It makes me respect Peter Hamilton as much as I respect many other Sci-Fi gods.