I have finally finished all 3,600 pages of the Night’s Dawn Trilogy I mentioned a little while ago. It’s one of the reasons that blog posts have been so thin on the ground…

I want to be *so* superlative about it, but there was something unsatisfactory about the ending. Maybe it’s just that I wasn’t crazy about Mr Hamilton’s attempt to meld spirituality with ‘cosmology’ – or maybe its the fact that the ultimate resolution of the novels feels rushed, feels literally Deus Ex Machina, as Robert McKee would no doubt have commented.

On the whole though, I do have that sinking feeling when you’ve said goodbye to a universe that I properly fell in love with. I’m not one of those who can re-read fiction (with the exception of some of the punnier Isaac Asimov short stories, and graphic novels, of course) – so this is goodbye, for me, to the Confederation, the Adamists and the Edenists, to Captain Calvert, and to everyone’s favourite insane possessed bitek habitat – Valisk.

For those who haven’t read the series, I promise I haven’t gone mad…