I’m giving up on Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton - DNF for me. Im reminded why I’ve read so little by him. It’s structured dreadfully, and soon becomes boring. We start with a great concept of an alien craft on a distant world and a group is sent to check it out. All good. Then we go into the future from there and get treated to 15 pages of pointless description of some kids playing a made up SF sports game, told in great detail, yet still impossible to follow, and there’s no apparent point to it. Then we go to the past for a bit of backstory for two of the team who have gone to check out the alien craft. This backstory is supposed to be exciting, but is actually dull, told in great detail with masses of info dumps, and is unrelated to the main story and takes… 100 pages! I’ve not read a book more in need of editing in 20 years.
It’s funny - I thought I ought to read more best-selling modern British space-opera, but seeing as books and series by Hamilton, Reynolds, Asher and Tchaikovsky have all been DNF for me, maybe I shouldn’t.