Does this follow the Night's Dawn trilogy, or is it stand alone? ----- Original Message ----- From: EVAN REESE To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:49 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton Hello All, I have just submitted The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy, Book One) by Peter F. Hamilton. I am now working on The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy, Book Two). It has been read through completely, all 630 pages of it, and every word in Ranked Spelling has been checked, so it has a Ranked Spelling rating of 100 percent. All chapter titles have been enlarged and have page numbers above them. All page numbers and page breaks are present. Dust jacket synopsis is below. Since I have read through it and done a complete spell check, hopefully no major errors will get through if it gets Jiffy proofed. However, whether whoever checks it out reads it or not, could someone please, please uncheck the Adult rating on this book. Here are the figures from Bookshare that--in its infinite wisdom--cause this book to be rated Adult: Out of a total of 222,356 words 22 were marked as "severe" and 113 as "warning" for a percentage of adult content of: 0.061%. Bookshare's analysis indicates that this title should be marked as having adult content. How the hell long have wee been asking for this to be fixed? At least to the extent of allowing submitters to change this rating if we see fit? Yeah, if I sound irritated, well, I am. Here's the synopsis. Enjoy. The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existence of the universe itself. At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path: planets, stars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold millions of years. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy's sentient races, the Raiel, do not know its origin, its makers, or its purpose. But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, begins dreaming of human beings who live within it. Inigo's dreams reveal a world in which thoughts become actions and dreams become reality. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo's dreams are shared by hundreds of millions--and a religion, the Living Dream, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes. Suddenly there is a new wave of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unknown Second Dreamer serve as the inspiration for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void. But there is a chance that by attempting to enter the Void, the pilgrims will trigger a catastrophic expansion, an accelerated devourment phase that will swallow up thousands of worlds. And thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mysterious Second Dreamer. Some seek to prevent the Pilgrimage, others to speed its progress--while within the Void, a supreme entity has turned its gaze, for the first time, outward.... Evan