Tuesday rant

You know what i hate, reading a really good book which you know has a sequel that hasn't yet been published. I just finished Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton and thoroughly enjoyed it, the more observant and regular reader may remember that i bought for reading on holiday way back in july. Well it got overlooked on holiday but i've been reading it over the last week or so, it's a big epic space adventure set in earths future, where we travel between the stars with wormhole technology under our control etc.

Despite all the technological advances humanity is threatened by a species that is entirely xenophobic and will tolerate only itself(for it has evolved as a single entity with many units of itself controlled by hive mind thing) to live in the universe. Theres also conspiracy theory stuff in the background as major characters appear to have been manipulated ot controlled by another alien power not yet revealed. Anyway i like it which is what counts even if it don't float your boat.

It's annoying that a. i don't know when the sequel is out(i can prob find out easy enough) and b. the bastarding thing will almost certainly only be available in hardback for at least 6 months and possibly a year after initial publishing. I know hardbacks are nice and all but i resent paying about double the price, but i think i might crack over this one, hopefully maybe it'll be out around christmas time and get it in a sale or something!