Pandora's Star

Mm-hmm.

And then the next alien invasion book is from 2004, Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora Star and Judas Unchained, which is again, two, two novels, but, you know, w- it's one story, so you put them together.

Yes.

And you're like, "Oh, that's great." So you can see, like, uh ...

yeah

and I want to I'll start and it's a book I listen to podcasts a book well it's two books it's a duology and the first book of that is Pandora's Star and The second book is Judas Unchained.

And I was telling you about this the other day on the phone, but you had to go because you were doing something.

I don't remember what it was.

They're going to get there in 100 years or whatever.

When they get there, we want to talk to them and see how they've done it, et cetera, and so on.

but he wants to see the stars before they get enveloped so he keeps going back like further away from the star so you can see it you know further in the past anyway essentially he discovers that they get enveloped instantaneously which is impossible okay so uh and they then they start thinking uh okay why was this done what's so dangerous about that that they had to envelop so it's not a dyson sphere it's a prison right so why did they have to do that and how the hell do you have the power to do that So they create this spaceship that can jump in wormholes as well, together, and then basically, Pandora's Star, you open Pandora's box, essentially, and all hell breaks loose.

It's phenomenal, but it's a massive book.