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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2012-08-06 08:59 pm

Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod

Newton's Wake: A Space OperaNewton's Wake: A Space Opera by Ken MacLeod

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I wanted some chewy scifi (nothing hard enough to require work, just something a bit toothsome). This got the job done – post singularity wormhole explorers playing in the remnants of godlike AI’s, space communists, mass consciousness uploads, etc. Second cousin to Stargate original flavor with a certain Kage Baker-ish soupcon to the protagonist, the faintest touch of the gigglies, and some deliberately terrible folk music as a bonus. Nothing groundbreaking or particularly new or exciting, but it got the job done.



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