Ok, so I've only read his trilogies so far, but I don't believe Peter Hamilton can write stories shorter than 2000 pages.

Seriously, a trilogy is supposed to be a set of three stories that each wrap up most of their own loose ends at the end of them, but provides some hanging plot hooks that continue on in the next book. Peter Hamilton seems to revel in introducing several new characters each book, and then wrapping up their character arches only in the last book.

Think of normal trilogies like three sausage links... Each one starts off small, builds to a big fat bulge of interesting plot, and then near the end shrinks back down to something manageable, before starting the next book.


Instead of a set of sausage links, Peter Hamilton's books are a huge parsnip that has been cut into three pieces.

Hamilton's trilogies (or hexlogies?) start small, and build up a bulk and keep building right up until the end of the book, then get cut off abruptly with no resolution. Then the next book picks up exactly where the last one left off with no introduction or transition. It then proceeds to pile on more characters with no end in sight, until the final book, where everything gets resolved, sometimes satisfactorily, sometimes not.

But really, it's the meat in the middle that makes his stories. The Universe he weaves is an amazing setting, and draws you in revealing layers and layers of detail. This man should be writing RPG supplements, not novels.