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BLESSED BY AN ANGEL

PETER F. HAMILTON

From the short story collection The New Space Opera (2007)


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Prolific British writer Peter F. Hamilton has sold to Interzone, In Dreams, New Worlds, Fears,
and elsewhere. He sold his first novel, Mindstar Rising, in 1993, and quickly followed it up with
two sequels, A Quantum Murder and The Nano Flower. Hamilton's first three books didn't
attract a great deal of attention, on this side of the Atlantic at least, but that changed
dramatically with the publication of his next novel, The Reality Dysfunction, a huge modern
space opera (it needed to be divided into two volumes for publication in the United States) that
was itself only the start of a projected trilogy of staggering size and scope, the Night's Dawn
trilogy, with the first volume followed by others of equal heft and ambition (and which also
raced up genre bestseller lists), The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. The Night's
Dawn trilogy put Hamilton on the map as one of the major players in the expanding subgenre
of the New Space Opera, along with writers such as Dan Simmons, Iain Banks, Paul McAuley,
Gregory Benford, Alastair Reynolds, and others; it was successful enough that a regular SF
publisher later issued Hamilton's reference guide to the complex universe of the trilogy, The
Confederation Handbook , the kind of thing that's usually done as a small-press title, if it's done at
all. Hamilton's other books include the novels Misspent Youth and Fallen Dragon, a collection, A
Second Chance at Eden, and a novella chapbook, Watching Trees Grow. His most recent book is a
new novel, Pandora's Star. Coming up is another new novel, Judas Unchained.
 Here he shows us that, popular wisdom to the contrary, being visited by an angel may not
really be all that good a thing after allтАж

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Imelda leaves her modest family home as the evening shade washes over the front garden, a
coy smile lifting her maroon-glossed lips. She's off to see her lover, a prospect which lifts her
heart and enhances her buoyant nature. The sun is slowly sinking behind the gigantic seven