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''Pandora's Star ''is a 2004 novel, written by [[Peter F Hamilton|Peter F. Hamilton]]. It is the first book in the [[Commonwealth Saga]] with its sequel, ''[[Judas Unchained (Literature)|Judas Unchained]]''.▼
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| author = Peter F. Hamilton
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| genre = Science fiction
| franchise = Commonwealth Saga
| preceded by = Misspent Youth
| followed by = Judas Unchained
| publication date = 2004
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▲''Pandora's Star ''is a 2004 novel, written by [[
''Pandora's Star'' presents a [[Loads and Loads of Characters|multifacted]] view of a future where [[Portal Network|wormhole technology]] has allowed mankind to colonize the universe, and genetics technology have made people practically immortal via rejuvenation treatments. Although the plot diverges in several directions, all of the story threads eventually become interwoven in a cliffhanger climax.
A quick summary of the [[Four Lines, All Waiting|numerous plot threads]] is as follows:
* Bumbling astronomer Dudley Bose observes an entire double-star system (Dyson Alpha and Beta) blink out of existence for no apparent reason, indicating a sort of instant-Dyson-sphere may have been erected.
* Humanity decides that either there is something bad inside the spheres that needed containing, or that there's something bad ''outside'', and the Dyson aliens tried to protect themselves {{spoiler|(it's the former)}}. They construct their ''first ever'' interstellar ship (up to that point having used planet-bound wormholes and trains to travel between colonies) and send it to investigate Dyson Alpha. Dudley Bose is placed on-board as a political maneuver.
* A [[Inspector Javert|genetically engineered detective]] chases an [[Well
* One of the co-inventors of the wormhole technology seeks the wisdom of [[Proud Scholar Race Guy|intergalactic]] [[Recycled in Space|space elves]] regarding the Dyson pair, and gets stranded in the far corners of the galaxy, with an [[Starfish Alien|unknown alien]] and a young kid as his companions.
* The explorers sent to the Dyson stars discover a [[Sealed Evil in
* Bad shit happens, setting up innumerable Cliffhangers for the next book, ''[[
[[Doorstopper|It's a long damn book]], and it's only the first half of the story.
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* [[Absent
▲* [[Absent Minded Professor]]: While Dudley Bose is a [[Your Mileage May Vary|likeable]] goof, his lack of discipline unleashes a hideous genocidal monstrosity on the universe.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted. MorningLightMountain is able to communicate with Dudley Bose only because {{spoiler|it places his brain into another immotile; even such, its thoughts appear disjointed and alien}}.
** MorningLightMountain can only talk to the SI after the SI hacked into its communications network and by utilizing the knowledge gained while interacting with Bose.
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted. In one chapter, a planet is methodically reached, explored, and rejected for settlement potential in the course of several hours.
* [[
* [[Can't Argue
* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Wormhole]]: Ozzie's personal asteroid and wormhole generator can get to almost anywhere in the Commonwealth, but is effectively useless for most of the book since Ozzie is outside Commonwealth space. Turns out to be important when {{spoiler|Mellanie and the SI hack it to evacuate Randtown refugees}}.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: touched upon briefly by Wilson, as this is how the citizens of the commonwealth maintain their scientific immortality. It's implied that this is largely a vestige of the people who were alive pre rejuvenation, and that the younger generations have no problem with it.
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** The Prime homeworld has been like this ever since those Prime bastards invented nuclear weapons. Not that they cared much about it in the first place.
* [[Dyson Sphere]]: It's actually an impenetrable forcefield.
* [[Easily
* [[First Contact]]: It doesn't go so well.
* [[For Science!]]: Basically the reason humanity wants to poke its nose in something it probably shouldn't.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: It is over 900 pages of seemingly unimportant plotlines and occasionally entire chapters of [[Narrative Filigree|flavor text]]. Thankfully it's to set up the second, and much more action packed book in the series.
** Emphasis on "seemingly" there - on a subsequent read-through it becomes apparent [[Chekhov's Gun|how many guns Chekhov left laying around]].
* [[Ghost Planet]]: One of the destinations the Silfen Paths take Ozzie, Orion and Tochee to.
* [[
* [[Hive Mind]]: MorningLightMountain {{spoiler|disrupts all other Immotiles and takes over their soldiers, basically becoming the whole Prime ''species''}}.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It's a flow wormhole generator, ''not'' a hyperdrive.
* [[Jerkass]]: There are a lot of characters which could be called this, but the cake goes to Nigel Sheldon, who revealed the wormhole technology he and his buddy Ozzie had been developing by basically going to Mars to make fun of the [http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs30/i/2009/305/2/3/Meeting_on_Mars_by_psypher101.jpg NASA astronauts who were just arriving].
* [[Memory Gambit]]: Criminals will wipe memorycells after committing crimes to prevent them from being read.
** Those of both victims and perpetrators.
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: The Silfen Friendship pendant given to Orion by his parents. Helps him and Ozzie out on the Silfen paths a few times by pointing them in the right direction.
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: A colossal invasion by an alien fleet that outnumbers the human fleet tens of thousands of times over is thwarted when one human ship hijacks an alien wormhole to their staging post and rams it. At twenty percent of the speed of light. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Hilarity ensues]]. Missiles are later developed to exploit this idea.
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Watson]]: Hoshe Finn to Paula Myo and Orion to Ozzie. Orion's ignorance of Commonwealth society and tech gives Ozzie an excuse to pine for it while stuck on the Silfen paths and Hoshe gives Paula a chance to explain her super detective reasoning. At one point their relationship is lampshaded when [[Fan of the Past|they briefly mention having read Sherlock Holmes books.]]
* [[Wetware CPU]]: The Primes never discovered computer chip technology, meaning that [[Big Bad|MorningLightMountain]] controls all mechanical processes with different immotile units. Additionally, it is distrustful of the computer processors it discovers with humans.
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