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I can't recall how long ago I read this book, but it starts with 2 college kids using some form of wormhole or instant travel mechanism they invented to personally witness man's first landing on Mars. The story skips then to them being ultrarich & nigh-immortal due to medical advances. One lives on a hollow asteroid that is very well appointed, the other more in touch with the world & politics. The story is somewhat light with a bit of mystery & discussion of societal impacts from income discrepancy.



I certainly hope I didn't include any spoilers. All my recollection of important events in the book are vague.






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I can't recall how long ago I read this book, but it starts with 2 college kids using some form of wormhole or instant travel mechanism they invented to personally witness man's first landing on Mars. The story skips then to them being ultrarich & nigh-immortal due to medical advances. One lives on a hollow asteroid that is very well appointed, the other more in touch with the world & politics. The story is somewhat light with a bit of mystery & discussion of societal impacts from income discrepancy.



I certainly hope I didn't include any spoilers. All my recollection of important events in the book are vague.






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I can't recall how long ago I read this book, but it starts with 2 college kids using some form of wormhole or instant travel mechanism they invented to personally witness man's first landing on Mars. The story skips then to them being ultrarich & nigh-immortal due to medical advances. One lives on a hollow asteroid that is very well appointed, the other more in touch with the world & politics. The story is somewhat light with a bit of mystery & discussion of societal impacts from income discrepancy.



I certainly hope I didn't include any spoilers. All my recollection of important events in the book are vague.






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I can't recall how long ago I read this book, but it starts with 2 college kids using some form of wormhole or instant travel mechanism they invented to personally witness man's first landing on Mars. The story skips then to them being ultrarich & nigh-immortal due to medical advances. One lives on a hollow asteroid that is very well appointed, the other more in touch with the world & politics. The story is somewhat light with a bit of mystery & discussion of societal impacts from income discrepancy.



I certainly hope I didn't include any spoilers. All my recollection of important events in the book are vague.






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    Hi there! That's some info already; but maybe you could take a look at thse guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in? For instance, you may still be able to narrrow the time your read it at a decade or so? Any recollection of the cover? Was that in English, translated? Also, spoilers are totally fine, as it may trigger someone else's memory :) if you want, you cna hide them by preceding them with >!, for instance >! Darth Vader is Luke's father.

    – Jenayah
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    Unconfirmed potential dupe of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18129/…

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  • It's a duplicate for sure. Mark it as such if that be best.

    – Dosco Jones
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    – Jenayah
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  • 1





    Hi there! That's some info already; but maybe you could take a look at thse guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in? For instance, you may still be able to narrrow the time your read it at a decade or so? Any recollection of the cover? Was that in English, translated? Also, spoilers are totally fine, as it may trigger someone else's memory :) if you want, you cna hide them by preceding them with >!, for instance >! Darth Vader is Luke's father.

    – Jenayah
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    Unconfirmed potential dupe of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18129/…

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  • It's a duplicate for sure. Mark it as such if that be best.

    – Dosco Jones
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– Jenayah
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Hi there! That's some info already; but maybe you could take a look at thse guidelines on story-ID, see if they trigger any more memories you could edit in? For instance, you may still be able to narrrow the time your read it at a decade or so? Any recollection of the cover? Was that in English, translated? Also, spoilers are totally fine, as it may trigger someone else's memory :) if you want, you cna hide them by preceding them with >!, for instance >! Darth Vader is Luke's father.

– Jenayah
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Unconfirmed potential dupe of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18129/…

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It's a duplicate for sure. Mark it as such if that be best.

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It's a duplicate for sure. Mark it as such if that be best.

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Possible duplicate of Book ID: Astronauts and Lab Students can create portals through space (and while we're at it, if someone wants to flesh that dupe-target a bit...)

– Jenayah
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This is the first of the Commonwealth stories, Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton.



From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga:




The book opens with a short section providing backstory. As part of
the first mission to Mars, a team of astronauts exits their spacecraft
for the first time, only to see another man standing there, connected
to an air hose that leads through a wormhole to a laboratory in
California. The wormhole generator's inventors, Nigel Sheldon and
Ozzie Isaacs, chose to test it by beating the crew, by moments, to be
the first human on Mars. The saga then moves onto the Commonwealth era
in 2380, when humanity has used the wormhole technology to colonise
several hundred planets across hundreds of light years.




This story has been asked about several times before.






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This is the first of the Commonwealth stories, Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton.



From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga:




The book opens with a short section providing backstory. As part of
the first mission to Mars, a team of astronauts exits their spacecraft
for the first time, only to see another man standing there, connected
to an air hose that leads through a wormhole to a laboratory in
California. The wormhole generator's inventors, Nigel Sheldon and
Ozzie Isaacs, chose to test it by beating the crew, by moments, to be
the first human on Mars. The saga then moves onto the Commonwealth era
in 2380, when humanity has used the wormhole technology to colonise
several hundred planets across hundreds of light years.




This story has been asked about several times before.






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This is the first of the Commonwealth stories, Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton.



From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga:




The book opens with a short section providing backstory. As part of
the first mission to Mars, a team of astronauts exits their spacecraft
for the first time, only to see another man standing there, connected
to an air hose that leads through a wormhole to a laboratory in
California. The wormhole generator's inventors, Nigel Sheldon and
Ozzie Isaacs, chose to test it by beating the crew, by moments, to be
the first human on Mars. The saga then moves onto the Commonwealth era
in 2380, when humanity has used the wormhole technology to colonise
several hundred planets across hundreds of light years.




This story has been asked about several times before.






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This is the first of the Commonwealth stories, Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton.



From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga:




The book opens with a short section providing backstory. As part of
the first mission to Mars, a team of astronauts exits their spacecraft
for the first time, only to see another man standing there, connected
to an air hose that leads through a wormhole to a laboratory in
California. The wormhole generator's inventors, Nigel Sheldon and
Ozzie Isaacs, chose to test it by beating the crew, by moments, to be
the first human on Mars. The saga then moves onto the Commonwealth era
in 2380, when humanity has used the wormhole technology to colonise
several hundred planets across hundreds of light years.




This story has been asked about several times before.






share|improve this answer















This is the first of the Commonwealth stories, Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton.



From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga:




The book opens with a short section providing backstory. As part of
the first mission to Mars, a team of astronauts exits their spacecraft
for the first time, only to see another man standing there, connected
to an air hose that leads through a wormhole to a laboratory in
California. The wormhole generator's inventors, Nigel Sheldon and
Ozzie Isaacs, chose to test it by beating the crew, by moments, to be
the first human on Mars. The saga then moves onto the Commonwealth era
in 2380, when humanity has used the wormhole technology to colonise
several hundred planets across hundreds of light years.




This story has been asked about several times before.







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