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Now, this is just disturbing:



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Catch-Up reviews: Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, Charles Stross

[I've been very lax in keeping up with my reading/viewing, so this will be brief]

Having had my curiosity piqued by The Atrocity Archives, I set out to acquire...

Singularity Sky

amazon.com - amazon.co.uk

The humour in the prose is turned back a notch or two from TAA, but there's still the occasional droll aside. In exchange, we get spaceships and rayguns, as an old-school interplanetary empire attempts to fend off an invasion by a group of nanotech post-scarcity travellers called The Festival.

Loved it, and ran out immediately to buy...

Iron Sunrise

amazon.com - amazon.co.uk

A sequel to SS, set in the same post-singularity galaxy of scattered human colonies. This time, the good guys go hunting a nasty bunch of planet-killers.

I loved 'em both, and I'll enthusiastically recommend them to any passing fans of Iain M Banks, Ken MacLeod or Alastair Reynolds.