About the book: 2002 / Before you is one of the most significant and ambitious space epics of our time. Before you is “The Coming of Night” by Peter F. Hamilton...The middle of the third millennium. Humanity has colonized dozens of planets throughout the Galaxy. Genetic engineers have perfected cloning techniques. Scientists have learned to create intelligent interstellar ships and intelligent “artificial planets”....Mid of the third millennium. People are divided into two warring federations - Edenists and Adamists, supporters and opponents of new technologies, but the Council of the Confederation of Planets still maintains peace in space. But the mysterious Neutron Alchemist has already been developed - a powerful superweapon that will radically change the balance of power in the Galaxy. Weapons for the possession of which the Edenists and Adamists begin to fight…