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LegitHyperbole on 24 September 2024
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SvennoJ said:

The best I've read in a long time is the Void Trilogy from Stephen Baxter

   

It's full speed from start to finish. Amazing storytelling.

AD 3580. The Commonwealth has spread its civilization throughout the galaxy. Its citizens are privileged and protected by a powerful navy. And at the galaxy’s centre is the Void, a sealed universe created by aliens billions of years ago. Yet the Void isn’t inert. It’s expanding – and now it wants to make contact.

The Void chooses Inigo as its conduit and he channels dreams of a simpler, better life within its bounds. His visions attract followers – determined to seek this utopia. And they’ll cross the Void’s forbidden boundaries to reach it. However, this act could trigger push it to grow beyond all control . . . destroying everything in its path.

All Stephan Baxter Commonwealth series are epic.


It's from 2007-2010 though.

The audible narrator seems decent and I've got some tokens. Any reason I should wait for a paper back delivery? Does it get complicated with names and world building that takes some extra thought like Lord of the Rings/Name of the wind/Song of Ice and fire, did you find yourself taking yourself away from it to consider what you read or ponder connections between what and when things happen?