Reddit reviews Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga)

If you like REALLY BIG BOOKS with a cast of thousands then I would suggest looking at Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. It's about an alien invasion of Earth and her many colonies in the 25th century.

I'm not kidding about a large cast of characters and the story does take a while to build up pace, but I find that Hamilton's fluid and no-nonsense prose helps to overcome this, as well as his sympathetically drawn characters and intriguing and quite mysterious plot lines.

Give it a go. It might be what you're looking for.

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Long as hell and the first book in The Commonwealth Saga.

Ilium by Dan Simmonds is fun.

Almost anything by Peter F Hamilton, but Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained is a good place to start.

I just finished reading Pandora's Star, Hamilton. Once they find us, we could be screwed.

Check out Pandora's Star.

Pandora's Star
Judas Unchained
That's a pretty good 2 book sci-fi series.

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton?

If you want a good Sci-Fi that will last you the entire trip look into Pandora's Star.

Have you read The Commonwealth Saga. Pandora's Star is the first in the 2 part series that takes place in the "near" future after a technological revolution. Its a Space Opera in it's own right even the more common means of travel is through wormholes (kind of like Stargate). The first few hundred pages dragged on but after reaching the middle of the book i'm not able to put it down.

http://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Star-The-Commonwealth-Saga/dp/0345479211

A few other options (and these might have been mentioned in previous comments):

Clarke's Rama series (although the first two of the four, in my opinion, are the best).

Niven's Ringworld series -- Note: there is a great variety in the quality of these books-- some are great, some are not. The first one, Ringworld, is superb and definitely an anchor of the "Big Dumb Object" type of books. Protector is also great!

Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star -- followed by Judas Unchained and the Void Trilogy ! Great world-building!

Greg Bear's Eon series

By the same author of Red Mars, pickup Icehenge -- a shorter read but definitely full of Kim Stanley Robinson's world-building depth.

Hugh Howey's Molly Fyde books are pretty entertaining. I read them after finding the Wool series. A book I would recommend is the Commonwealth Saga books by Peter Hamilton. The first one is Pandoras Star http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0345479211/ref=mp_s_a_7?pi=SL75&qid=1348879643&sr=1-7