Re: FYI: A Suprisingly Good Sci-Fi Book

Here's another recommend I've been meaning to drop on the list: Ken
McLeod.

If you're an Iain M. Banks fan, I think you'll like McLeod. He's insane,
Scottish, and writes mind-warping, very original SF...

He's up to seven books now, all set in more or less the same universe
(maybe). The first quartet he calls the "Fall Revolution" group: "The
Star
Fraction", "The Stone Canal", "The Cassini Division" & "The Sky Road".

These four are linked, but you can read them in any order, pretty much.
I
started with "Sky Road" and more or less worked my way backwards...

His 2nd trilogy is "The Engines of Light": "Cosmonaut Keep", "Dark
Light",
"Engine City". These're much more closely linked, forming a proper
trilogy
rather than a suite of books.

The plots are political, complex, and excellent. He's also markedly left
wing, which is a relief from all the right-wing political SF out
there...
it's a pretty realistic, dystopic future tho... Lots of fun.

I gather McLeod has been available in the UK for quite a while now, but
I
first saw his books here in Canada last year. Worth looking up!

(Not much gaming content in them, though. FMA skirmish stuff, maybe.
Just
very good reads!)

Brian.