r/PeterFHamilton

SpaceX is capitalism on rocket fuel

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/05/21/spacex-is-capitalism-on-rocket-fuel

Ok it is not wormhole technology, but I think it's a better model than Stark.

Agreed?

I keep hearing that all the female characters are incredibly horny. I have only read/listened to the first Exodus book and The Commonwealth books (I have the last two void books to go) and while I agree, it is not JUST the females. Nearly every character in these novels are horny balls, wanting to screw anyone they meet.

Considering they are in a future where it seems the traditional religion of our day seems to have very little power, and they have gone past the whole shaming people for sex and desires, it actually seems reasonable.

Granted, some of the scenes are positively pornographic, and it would be nice to have known about it, I listen to them on audible, and sometimes have passages! But I can see that when post-religious morals come along, that are secular morals, take hold, sexual freedom will become quite a thing.

Was there any reason for the change that Hamilton acknowledges? It was really nice to have a small representation in one of my favourite series, and then he just takes it away in the subsequent sequels.

The track is called "Waterwalker" (lyrics below) and was inspired directly by the Commonwealth Saga and Void trilogy. It's one of the tracks on our upcoming self-produced album, Supercruise, which is heavily infused with science fiction themes.

We don't have a set genre but work primarily in the funk, hip hop, soul and blues spheres, mostly because that's the kind of music we love and know how to play. There are some retrowave sounds on some of the other tracks. This project began more than a year ago as a labor of love and there's no set date for the entire album, but we hope to have a better idea in the coming months as we finish a few more tracks and get a sense for how things are shaping up.

Lyrics:

Ingress burn aligned in phase

Riding lines through time and space

Emerge from a shining gate

Anti-matter drives ablaze

Burning toward an evening star

My primal human beating heart

Screaming photons teased apart

In the Void receding far

The Waterwalker flies below

In the city's mind enthroned

Guiding where the time will flow

To new horizons skylords show

The Morning Light on Mountains high

Portals blaze on ground and sky

On every world we're found alive

Raising swords and counting Primes

Waterwalker, bring the mighty low

Waterwalker, bring your far sight home

Waterwalker, turn the hills to ash

Oh Waterwalker, roam the Silfen paths!

Waterwalker, will you intervene?

Waterwalker, you're the Living Dream

Waterwalker, can we be redeemed?

In a world where we don't build machines"

I've also uploaded the album's intro track, which is just a short bit to get the party started:

https://youtu.be/FQ84Ur2J358?si=IbulndsVKjnKgoIt

That one has references to Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series, and of course Deep Navigation is the name of one of AR's short story collections, used with his blessing.

If anyone digs this and is interesting, I will post updates as we hopefully bring a complete album together by the end of this year. I'm a huge fan of Hamilton, Reynolds, Banks et al, and it's been really fun to mine their stories for musical inspiration. Cheers.