Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds is like Alastair Reynolds writing a Ken MacLeod book. It's very good.

After discovering that the Mingulay Boat Song was composed after the abandonment of Mingulay I'm left with a persisting image of Matt or Gregor Cairns singing it on the Bright Star.

Ken MacLeod really rips into Thursday's terrorists. But it reads to me more like the ravings of someone insecure than actual convinced argument.