That is the second ebook of the Arkship Trilogy. The primary ebook, A Gap within the Sky, was printed in paperback in January 2026. The third ebook is predicted in December 2026. All three have beforehand been out there as audiobooks.
My colleague Mark Chitty reviewed this primary ebook for SFFWorld as an audiobook (HERE.) I learn it as a paperback again in January. I actually preferred it, however felt there was nothing I might meaningfully add to Mark’s wonderful evaluate (which I learn after I’d learn the ebook myself.)
However placing it merely, I felt that it was a younger grownup sort of novel; it very a lot jogged my memory of the juvenile classics by Asimov, Clarke & Heinlein, albeit with a extra modern really feel. It was less complicated and extra direct than Peter’s typical materials, however this meant that the plot focussed on the important thing factors of narrative and character with out side-stories or detailed background.
And so to Guide 2. Warning: As it’s Guide 2, there could also be slight spoilers for Guide 1 right here, though I’ll try to preserve them to a minimal.
Their world lives on, however who will management it? Hazel and the reawakened command AI have repaired Daedelus, the huge technology ship carrying the final of humanity on a centuries lengthy journey to a brand new world. However can she persuade her folks of the reality she discovered within the course of? That humanity shouldn’t be alone on Daedelus. That the Yi, an alien species, have made it their dwelling.
However these in energy don’t need to hear if it means a problem to their authority. So Hazel should journey once more to the ship’s far reaches, to be taught what the Yi plan for Daedelus. What she discovers there may be much more terrifying than a mere gap within the sky…
After the revelations of Guide 1, right here Peter extends the science-fictional aspect extra in that the main focus has widened to past the confines of Hazel’s village. Now that we (and so they!) know that they’re on a generational spaceship with vintage know-how and an alien lifeform, Hazel, her youthful brother Frazer, loyal Alice, Shao and her boyfriend Rell have the duty of letting different folks know what they now know (from Guide 1.) Most of this ebook offers with the truth that in addition they need to journey ahead to the defunct components of the ship and cope with the alien Yi who’ve additionally infiltrated themselves all through the spaceship.
We develop into extra science-fictional because the group revive and be taught to make use of previous know-how, underneath the steerage of John, their lately woke up AI, and others they meet. The final a part of the ebook offers with their assault on the Yi and the results of that, setting issues up for the third ebook.
All in all, it is a typical center ebook. You could have learn A Gap within the Sky to totally comprehend the actions in The Captain’s Daughter, though Peter does an important job of summarising it at the start of this ebook. After all, Guide 2 units issues up for the third act in Guide 3.
Advised from the angle of Hazel, issues do transfer ahead on this ebook, and we get to know extra about Hazel and her group in addition to the very alien aliens.
It’s fairly refreshing to learn a much less complicated however nonetheless partaking Peter Hamilton ebook. There are minor annoyances – utilizing the phrase “Oh my dayz” as the primary characters do feels dated even now, for instance – however usually the ebook has sufficient attraction and motion to maintain the reader page-turning. Like earlier than, it isn’t super-complex, but it’s thrilling sufficient to maintain the pages turning till you get to the inevitable ‘To Be Continued’.
Guide 3 – Queens of An Alien Solar – is predicted in print in December 2026, though the audiobook model is already on the market.
© 2026 Mark Yon
Paperback | Indignant Robotic
THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER by Peter F Hamilton
June 2026 | 256 pages
ISBN: 978 183 6730 118
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