On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
This, like The Zenith Angle, is a slightly silly book. I'll take that back. It's nothing like as silly. It's slightly whimsical. The universe is of a fairly standard post-singularity, FTL-travel (but with relatively hard science despite that), uploaded-humans and nanotech type, with a neat little anthropic principle twist. The central civilisation of the plot is deliberately backwards, and is attempting to fend off a rather whimsical "enemy" it can't comprehend. It's all pretty fun, and treats sci-fi as a metaphor for computer science, like a rather weak version of Vernor Vinge. In particular, it's a rather simple allegory on the nature of the internet. While not the best thing ever, it's hooked me into looking out for more of his stuff.
Permalink. Posted 21:52, Wed, 22 Mar 2006.
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