Silfen

Long life can be enjoyed by nearly everyone thanks to rejuvenation and of the alien races encountered to date, only one, the Silfen, is sentient and poses no threat to humanity.

Archive 2007-12-01 Mark 2007

Long life can be enjoyed by nearly everyone thanks to rejuvenation and of the alien races encountered to date, only one, the Silfen, is sentient and poses no threat to humanity.

Review | Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton (Pan Macmillan) Mark 2007

Araminta’s knowledge of the Silfen was a little vague.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

Ozzie and his self-imposed mission along the Silfen paths from planet to planet is also a good example of fine storytelling of adventure and exploration.

Archive 2007-12-01 Mark 2007

It is what I like to call ‘ampersand’ fiction – not SF/F but SF & F. And his bold concepts, like the Silfen able to walk between worlds and the Void, and the Dreamer, and his wonderful evocation of the Void world where telepathy and ‘third hands’ are a matter of course, make his novel into a rich blend of myth, yarn, and rattling good tale.

2009 April « Memesis Virtualis 2009

I can only imagine what sort of stories could come out of the Silfen paths if Peter so wished.

Archive 2007-12-01 Mark 2007

It is what I like to call ‘ampersand’ fiction – not SF/F but SF & F. And his bold concepts, like the Silfen able to walk between worlds and the Void, and the Dreamer, and his wonderful evocation of the Void world where telepathy and ‘third hands’ are a matter of course, make his novel into a rich blend of myth, yarn, and rattling good tale.

Frühlingsbücher 4: Philip Palmer « Memesis Virtualis 2009

Ozzie and his self-imposed mission along the Silfen paths from planet to planet is also a good example of fine storytelling of adventure and exploration.

Review | Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton (Pan Macmillan) Mark 2007

I can only imagine what sort of stories could come out of the Silfen paths if Peter so wished.

Review | Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton (Pan Macmillan) Mark 2007

Similarly, Hamilton's description of aliens like the Silfen and Tochee are well done and fascinating, although the best description of alien life by far is the description of the Primes themselves much of which appears in Pandora's Star.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008