Maybe you didn't read the whole review:Insane Bartender wrote:While I haven't spent the time appreciating the depth of the circular argument above, I would like to point out, in response to the original post, that the same review site that accused Donaldson of using 'Deus Ex Machina' plot devices then lauds Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy as 'very impressive', despite having one of the most clipped deus ex machina endings I've ever read.
It's something along the lines of 'oh, we've found a benign, omnipotent singularity, which is more than happy to help solve all the galaxy's problems for no reason whatsoever. End.'
Admittedly, a good series up to that point, but still...
sites.inka.de/mips/reviews/TheRealityDysfunction.html -
Or maybe you did read the whole review but neglected to mention this.The ending feels comparatively rushed, tying up innumerable loose ends too neatly, and resting quite literally on a deus ex machina.
But then after all, the author of the review apparently found far fewer flaws in the Hamilton trilogy and so he was willing to forgive the deus ex at the end. So I don't see any kind of implicit double standard being employed against SRD.