Mr. Hamilton shows hubris and poor judgement in writing a 3,400+ pages trilogy, which if it had beenrigorously edited down to, say, a 500 pages novel, might have been at least barely tolerable.The book contains some good hard science fiction ideas, but unfortunately they pale in comparisonwith its many totally absurd fantasy and supernatural elements. The author makes the same mistake ofoh so many writers of putting himself and his characters in an increasingly impossible situation, which at the endof this endless trilogy is resolved in the most preposterous, utterly silly and childish and poorly imagined manner.If the book had been removed of all its gratuitous hard core sex and violence sections and, again, substantially and mercilesslyedited down to a reasonable size, it might have been a good adventures book for early teens.