The Reality Dysfunction [SEP] series
The Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction is a science fiction novel by British writer Peter F. Hamilton, the first book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is followed by "The Neutronium Alchemist" and "The Naked God". It was first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Publishers on 26 January 1996. The first US edition, which was broken into two volumes, "Emergence" and "Expansion" (the UK paperback is not), followed in July and August 1997 from Time Warner Books. The
the setting, "The Confederation Handbook", was later published), Hamilton has occasionally hinted at returning to the setting in future books in the form of a sequel series set up to 500 years after the events in the trilogy.
Background.
In "The Reality Dysfunction", the presence of an energy-based alien lifeform during the death of a human on the colony world of Lalonde somehow 'jammed open' the interface between this universe and 'the beyond', an energistic vacuum where the souls of