The Reality Dysfunction: Night's Dawn Trilogy 1

The Reality Dysfunction, the first book in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, is an expansive intergalactic adventure set in the year 2600, where humanity has achieved remarkable progress through colonization and genetic engineering. The story unfolds when a primitive colony encounter with an alien entity unleashes a catastrophic event known as the "Reality Dysfunction," threatening to upheave the advanced civilization. Praised for revitalizing British space opera, the novel leads into subsequent installments, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God.