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18 June 2026
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
All ages welcome
£6 General Admission / £27 Ticket with Book
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Following the events of The Archimedes Engine, Finn and his allies find themselves at the centre of an uprising, finally granted an unprecedented opportunity to claim a place of independence and power for humanity in the Crown Dominion.
Peter joins us to discuss this far-future world and brilliant duology, answer audience questions and sign copies of his books.
About EXODUS: The Helium Sea
For millennia, the Crown Dominion has been at relative peace, with the Celestials in control and the human population little better than serfs. But now the Crown Dominion is facing a crisis of epic proportions – one that could change the balance of power in the Centauri Cluster forever – as an exiled faction that has been waiting for seven thousand years beyond the Helium Sea has returned to claim its vengeance.
For Finn and his human allies, who have ended up at the center of this conflict through either circumstance or manipulation, this is an unprecedented opportunity. If they can band together, they may be able to outwit the Celestials and finally earn their fellow humans a place of independence and power in the Crown Dominion. But first they must locate and master ancient artifacts of immense power that could give them a needed edge in the conflict ahead – all while ducking the forces that are determined to knock them off the board for good.
About the Author
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He began writing in 1987 and sold his first short story to FEAR magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, the Chronicle of the Fallers and the Salvation Sequence, as well as short story collections and several standalone titles, including Falling Dragon and Great North Road.
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