Customer Reviews
Seven short but entertaining stories. - By: Mr. Steven Williamson, 02 Sep 2008 
The book is sequence of stories setin the time leading up to the time of the Nights Dawn trilogy is set the stories again are very imaginative & will keep the reader interested & aren't long so can be readin a few hours with the longest taking about 3-4 hours to read for me. The highlight of the book is the story escape route where Marcus Calvert must escape a long abandoned alien ship.
A must for Nights Dawn fans - By: S. Williamson, 30 Jun 2007 
This book has several short storiesin it & a Novella, which carries the title of the book. The Novella is essentially a crime story which explains the origins of affinity & the habitat Eden. It gives more detail of the technology & helps explain the universe of the Nights Dawn trilogy. It certainly stands on its own, but for those that enjoyed Nights Dawn, you love this.
An Essential To The 'Night's Dawn Trilogy' - By: , 06 Feb 2004 
As I write this, I have owned 'Second Chance At Eden' for a while, & have read it several times. The book is a collection of short stories which preceed 'Night's Dawn', & gives the reader a hint as to what has gone before. All of the stories fall into some section of the timeline, the last story been closed to the events of 'Reality Dysfunction'.
The stories themselves are good & well written, enjoyable, & essential to any Hamilton Fan.
Pick and Mix - By: Crazy Eddie, 03 Feb 2004 There is not really a lot to add to what other reviewers have written - the stories are great & well written, (although perhaps not quite as well polished as Night's Dawn) & the characterisation is generally good: this is true of both those we might term heroes & those who could be villains, althoughin many places this becomes blurred. This is one of the best points, all the characters are human, with a mix of traits not just virtuously angelic or evilly demonic. Another good feature of this anthology, is that each story is truly distinct & individual. There are one or two links to the main work (Night's Dawn) but each storyin Second Chance is writtenin slightly different styles & focuses on slightly different things, giving a full range between "Alien" at one extreme & "Caves of Steel" at the other.
A goodly tale - By: Chris, 07 Nov 2003 The nights dawn trilogy was an absolute stunner. Normally you would expect a flash of genius like that to peeter out, (like the attempts to make F. Herberts Dune more than a trilogy, or Asimovs Foundation, ) but rest assured the quality continues unabattedin this one. Sadly I can't remember it so it only gets four stars but if you've read the first 3 you still need this.
