[extropy-chat] Ken MacLeod's Hard Rapture

[Charlie Stross]

On 29 May 2004, at 18:44, David wrote:
>
>> Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
>> *
>> By Ken MacLeod
>> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue370/books.html
>>
> I don?t know whether the book is any good,
> but that link leads to a shit-house reviewer.
>
> - ?Here?s a summary of what happened, because
> I don?t know how to review without spoilers.?

You can find a somewhat less revealing review here:

http://news.diversebooks.com/reviews/04/03/15/1128234.shtml

And a good but negative review here:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/ 
0,6121,1178647,00.html

(Gwyneth Jones is not my first choice of reviewers for a  
quasi-extropian novel ...)

I liked the book, but then I'm biased (Ken dedicated it to me and my  
wife :)


-- Charlie