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aspenmayer 3 months ago

This sounds vaguely like the series that Peter F. Hamilton has written, possibly the Commonwealth Saga?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton

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

mock-possum 3 months ago | parent [-]

Man ‘Judas Unchained’ sounds like a real familiar title but the synopsis does not right any bells.

I think the artifact that could be tuned to pull power from celestial bodies was sold to the human / or traded or gambled or something - by an alien entity named ‘wheeler’ maybe?

The protagonist had a friend named Zero or Zeno that was kind of a techno mystic?

Idk my memories are pretty spotty

aspenmayer 3 months ago | parent [-]

The book is Signal to Noise and its sequel A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund.

A personal favorite of mine! Wheeler is such a convincing villain, and the existence of such a character as an explanation of the Fermi paradox is eminently believable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Nylund