PETER F Hamilton's best-selling Night's Dawn Trilogy has been one of the most triumphant and critically acclaimed works of Science Fiction to appear in decades.

Swiftly gathering a world-wide readership, this masterwork of cosmic imagination and brilliant story-telling amounts to over 3,700 pages (or 1,200,000 words), and has brought to life an entire galaxy of diverse planets and astonishing civilisations, spanning over 600 years. (Macmillan £12.99).