found this lying around and realised i hadn't read it yet.

then again, iirc the only reason i own it at all was that i didn't want to leave munich's second-hand english book shop without at least getting something, but amazingly they didn't have much (at least for (science) fiction/fantasy) which i either hadn't read already or sounded profoundly uninteresting, but at least i remembered having once enjoyed a thing Peter F Hamilton wrote years ago, so that was that.

so far it's like, mid-to-interesting 'standard' science fiction which is irritatingly uninterested in the social implications of the world it depicts. also it doesn't help that the author's seemingly never heard the word "queer" in his life …