Competition | The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton

Competition time! I wanted to give you all the chance to win one of my favourite series ever, The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. First published in the 90's, this is true grand scale space opera on a huge canvas. Below you'll find the synopsis for each book, just in case you need to be persuaded to enter to get a free series!

So, the rules:
1. Open Worldwide
2. One entry per person
3. Full name and mailing address must be included
4. Closing date: Friday 30th April
5. All entries should be sent to mark@walkerofworlds.com, with the email subject as 'Night's Dawn'.
6. The winner will receive one copy of The Reality Dysfunction, one copy of The Neutronium Alchemist and one copy of The Naked God. These will be purchased and shipped from an online store of my choice.
7. Any entries that don't include all of the above will be deleted.

The winner will receive an email from me once the closing date has passed letting them know they've won. Once that's done I'll be putting the order in and getting the items shipped directly to the winner. Good luck to all!

In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature’s boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp.

But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal’s chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it “The Reality Dysfunction”. It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history.

The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation’s peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world.

On planets and asteroids individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously overstretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night.

In such desperate times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist – so she can complete her thirty-year-old vendetta to slay a star. Which means Joshua Calvert has to find Dr Mzu and bring her back before the Alchemist can be reactivated.

But he’s not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to sue the ultimate doomsday device.

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 does not quite match her own.

The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle of the type not seen by humankind for six hundred years. Then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction . . .

Joshua Calvert and Syrinx now fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God -- which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed.