The cycle of the dawn of the night, near 3600 pages of space opera and fantasy. The first volume (Genesis) is at least excellent, finds as "Rama" in polyps, hawks, Edenistes, very realistic description of the colonization of the planet Lalonde, breaking into the real (the dead come back to have the living) and a certain brutality in writing. Ah, if only the rest was the same level ... the problem is that the English author is not renewed in the following volumes, worst falls into clichés that speak volumes about his intellectual flexibility: military always enlightened and courageous, scientists at the edge of debility, monarchical dynasty Saldana is the top of governance, and the hero (Joshua), friendly in the first volume, is so smooth and perfect that it becomes dripping deference ... in short, the more one sinks into reading and it seems to get bogged down. Shame to have given so much hope and potential in the first volume to ignore excellence in writing within 6! No, this is not the cycle that will overshadow Hyperion or Dune!