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A few years back I started getting ideas for a sci-fi novel: a picaresque romp around a post-human solar system as I imagined might come about in about 200 years.
This weekend I finished Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix (actually Schismatrix Plus which includes the short stories written in the same setting). I've had the distressing feeling since I started this book that I read it sometime before this and forgot about it, because Sterling had all my good ideas about 15 years before I did. Actually I don't know why this should distress me that much because I was stealing my ideas from John Varley. Sterling just beat me too it.
Anyway Schismatrix is pretty good overall. I see a lot of similarities to it in other books I've liked, like Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal.