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'The Saints of Salvation' by Peter Hamilton is another mind-boggling novel as well as the conclusion (?) of the The Salvation Sequence trilogy. Readers MUST begin with Salvation - none of these books are standalone.

Below is the book blurb on the cover:

Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than the aliens may have expected. Will a strategy millennia in the making finally be enough to defeat this seemingly unstoppable enemy? And what secrets are the aliens truly hiding in their most deeply protected stronghold?

With his trademark optimism about humanity's tenacity and capacity for greatness, Peter F. Hamilton ends this brilliant saga with a bang--and reveals a few startling surprises along the way.

Although the blurb is accurate, it leaves out the incredible high tech developed from quantum and particle science as imagined by Hamilton. Portals for traveling between planets have been developed from quantum entangled particles, personalities are transferred into warships traveling throughout the Galaxy, food and clothes are printed out on demand - some of the examples of ordinary life in these books. The timespan of this series is 20,000 years, made possible by manipulations of space/time. Bodies are recreated as easily as manufacturing dolls are today, so characters from 'Salvation' are still battling the evil Olyix millennia later in 'The Saints of Salvation', although the end, final death, does come for some characters. Who? Not telling....

Highly recommended for hardcore science fiction readers! FYI, my favorite character is Kandera, for those of you have read the series.