The Reality Dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton

Mar 2016 · Night's Dawn Trilogy Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by John Lee

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

John Lee at his best as a narrator. And the Night's Dawn trilogy has become a classic must-read, despite the Deus Ex Machina ending. Before the end of the last book, it's a jolly good read, sci-fi centered on human nature, for better and for worse.

Honestly had to start reading the book myself. John Lee ruins audiobooks with his beyond monotone, news-like narration. Really a shame since it's a great book and I barely have time to read it.

About the author

Peter F. Hamilton is the author of numerous novels, including A Night Without Stars, Great North Road, The Evolutionary Void, The Temporal Void, The Dreaming Void, Judas Unchained, Pandora's Star, Misspent Youth, Fallen Dragon, and the acclaimed epic Night's Dawn trilogy. He lives with his family in England.

John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. An AudioFile Golden Voice narrator, he is the winner of numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards.