# Help needed -Book title

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 24, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501 "2011-02-24T20:50:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![depocali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@depocali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/depocali)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/1 "2011-02-24T20:50:57Z")

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I’m trying to remember the name of the series of books. It involves space travel and neural implants/interfaces that connect people and provides encyclopaedic knowledge. I also recall a medieval world where they make wine (or something similar).

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/2 "2011-02-25T22:08:36Z")

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\*\<free bump\>  
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That’s not much to go on. Any more details at all? Even tiny random ones?

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/3 "2011-02-25T22:14:03Z")

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[Ilium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium_(novel))?

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/4 "2011-02-25T22:19:59Z")

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It’s definitely not a great match but a flyer: The Company novels by Kage Baker? Starting with [In the Garden of Iden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Iden)?

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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/5 "2011-02-25T23:22:15Z")

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Was it Peter Hamilton’s [Reality Dysfunction series](http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Dysfunction-Nights-Dawn/dp/0316021806/ref=pd_cp_b_1)?

J.

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**Author:** ![depocali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@depocali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/depocali)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/6 "2011-03-03T05:38:34Z")

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Sorry for the fuzzy details, but it is Peter F Hamilton…off to the kindle I go!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-book-title/572501/7 "2011-03-03T18:58:58Z")

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Ah, a great series, but I think

Hamilton really stumbles badly at the end. I was totally digging it - an amazingly well-written and fully-realized universe, with interesting characters and situations - until the last hundred pages or so. Soooo… the Han Solo-like character receives godlike powers and moves all of the inhabited star systems much closer together? _Really?_ Blech.