Mind Over Ship, by David Marusek ★★★★

[mithriltabby]

In the sequel to Counting Heads, Marusek picks up the story several months later with several continuing viewpoint characters and a few new ones. He doesn’t spend a lot of time getting new readers up to speed, and I wish I had re-read the first book before I’d opened this one, to get all of the characters and their agendas fresh in my mind. The intrigues surrounding Earth’s first fleet of interstellar colony ships continue, and we get to see them from high-level maneuvering as well as the front lines. Marusek begins to weave in a few posthuman themes, highlighting different branches that superhuman intelligence could take, and continues to explore the ramifications of clone labor forces. The book leaves one of its larger themes unresolved, so expect this to grow into a trilogy soon.

Comments

[caprine.livejournal.com]

I remember Counting Heads. That was one awesomely fucked-up book.

[mithriltabby]

The sequel is just as awesomely fucked-up.