Title: Needs better editing.
Product review: I gave up after 650 pages... his tendency is to obsessively detail every planet's geology, culture, development, and history only to have it have no actual relevance to the plot, while leaving most of the humans without discernable motivations beyond the broadly comic and obvious.Entire swaths of this "epic" could be cut without impacting the core story. And yes, I skipped to the end only to discover no good resolutions... only buy this if you're prepared to endure 3000 eventual pages of this largely unedited meandering.I'm not afraid of space opera: I love Iain M Banks' Culture books, Alastiar Reynolds' series, and others back to Larry Niven. But those authors provide detail to propel the story, to add relevance and texture. Hamilton is not in this league.
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