Hard-Sci-Fi has too much technobabble and too little identification with the characters and parts with them, social Sci-Fi hasn´t enough action, each subgenre has elements some group of readers could dislike. Hamilton fuses protagonists, plot, and world together, there is hardly ever any interaction, dialogue, that has no relevance and this differentiates him from many other Sci-Fi authors and genres.
But just as the mentioned King, he is so good at what he does that one doesn´t care because I must say that I have hardly ever read any Sci-Fi novels (it were hundreds) that were of a similar intensity. No passage, nothing that let´s one get out of the flow for a moment and that although there are flaws such as logic holes and other points people criticize in his work.
He is the Stephen King of Sci-Fi, other genre authors might write less stereotypical, more believable, less controversial, more tech-focused,… but he ultimately checked that the fusion of persons, plots, sense of wonder, and worldbuilding is the key to readers' ultimate dreams. I should consider rereading all he wrote again. I was still really young when I read it the first time and Hamilton was the one who opened my mind for the immense possibilities of Sci-Fi. This is one of the best Sci-Fi series ever written, comparable with the old classics and The Expanse, Reynolds, Banks, Scalzi, Stephenson, Simmons,… and I can´t say how much I love this novel.
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