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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 2896659" data-attributes="member: 29746">I quite liked that, but it was painful waiting for the sequel (I'm still waiting, in fact, because it's not in paperback yet- though the hardcover is out now). But the aliens from the titular Star are quite scary when they finally make a contribution to the plot.The Naked God was a good finish to Night's Dawn IMO, though (as you can guess from the title) it's got a bit of a deus ex machina.My most recent read was Sunstorm, by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke, the second in their "Time Odyssey" pair. Quite a good apocalyptic yarn! The first one, Time's Eye, was a slower read for me but would probably make a really interesting role-playing game campaign. I actually think it could be made to work in almost any system, except perhaps Toon or Paranoia. Also, the two books aren't really a series so much as a pair of self-contained stories related by the machinations of the aliens- one could read them in either order, I think, or even just singly, and not miss much.Their previous collaboration, The Light of Other Days, is one of my all-time favorites, exploring the consequences of the development of a technology to literally look across time and space at will. Without spoiling anything, by far the most important such consequence is the total loss of any ability to keep secrets or privacy. Very good book!</blockquote>