In fact, Alastair Reynolds, one can retain tetralogy begun by the space of revelation. It sometimes includes a few laps, but its epic aspect concerns us. The rain of the century shared with this epic attractive to his characters, an ability to describe cataclysmic or post-cataclysmic environment, and one or two original ideas, which is not bad. However, if we tetralogy foreshadowed many opportunities as and as the author wove his world, the rain of the century, however, reduced its scope gradually to finish in a simple detective story, the major frame is a love story, sprinkled with a little science fiction agreed. In short, no magic this time. I still read the next novel by this author, in the hope of finding the freshness that I liked in the "cycle of revelation."