Yup, as notahacker intuited, Charles Stross is another favourite author, whose back catalogue I am eagerly consuming now. His Singularity Sky / Iron Sunrise ar

Yup, as notahacker intuited, Charles Stross is another favourite author, whose back catalogue I am eagerly consuming now. His Singularity Sky / Iron Sunrise are (opinion) great introductions to what the kids may call his 'hard science' fiction -- though I'm disappointed that there won't be a third (and disappointed in myself for misunderstanding a rather large plot construct throughout the entire second book). Accelerando is superb -- a delightful discovery made via some HN comments ages back. It's heavy on spoilers around the history / creation / plots of same, so if you're ever going to read the above, wait until then before reading this: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/09/books-i-will-not-write-2-iron.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/09/books-i-...