[books 2012] Ken Macleod
57. Newton's Wake by Ken Macleod
It's Ken Macleod, so, you know, big space opera, post-Singularity, where societies have evolved around scavenging machines made by post-human AIs, and accidentally wake some, for want of a better description, Big Honking Space Guns (thank you Stargate).
It's a stand-alone novel with a similar scope to the Star Fraction series, so there's a lot packed in to it. There's a lot less difficult political stuff than he usually deals with though.
I wish I hadn't waited so long to write it up - there's a lot of things to think about in it, and I was actually thinking about them, but that was back at the beginning of the week and I can't remember.
Very good, though.
It's Ken Macleod, so, you know, big space opera, post-Singularity, where societies have evolved around scavenging machines made by post-human AIs, and accidentally wake some, for want of a better description, Big Honking Space Guns (thank you Stargate).
It's a stand-alone novel with a similar scope to the Star Fraction series, so there's a lot packed in to it. There's a lot less difficult political stuff than he usually deals with though.
I wish I hadn't waited so long to write it up - there's a lot of things to think about in it, and I was actually thinking about them, but that was back at the beginning of the week and I can't remember.
Very good, though.