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Sailing Bright Eternity Greg Benford
Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter
Gateway Fred Pohl
The Clan Corporate Charles Stross
Immortality Inc. Robert Sheckly
Darkland Liz Williams
Starfish Peter Watts
Maelstrom Peter Watts
The Oregon Experiment Alexander et al.
Missle Gap Charles Stross
Blindsight Peter Watts
Air Geoff Ryman
Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner
The Execution Channel Ken MacLeod
The Snake Agent Liz Williams
The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks
Sun of Suns Karl Schroeder
9Tail Fox Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The Moon of Gomrath Alan Garner
Players Paul McAuley
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy Dennis Detwiller (not)
Glasshouse Charles Stross


The Last Witchfinder James Morrow

This is an interesting book, and quite an achievement. It tells of one woman's fight against unreason in general, and the practice of witch hunting in particular. Set in the late 17 and early 18th centuries and in both England and the Americas, it features appearances by Newton, Hooke and Benjamin Franklin. It's largely a historical novel except for the conceit that it is told by a book, Newton's Principia Mathematica. Much of the language is in a voice approximating to 18th century writing which doesn't make for an easy read but, in its own way, this book's 550 pages tell much the same story of the Enlightenment and the dawning of the modern world as does the Baroque Cycle's 2400 pages. Recommended, but not as light summer reading!