Little Brother
Basically this novel is one long, very angry rant about the erosion of civil liberties in the Western world. Which doesn't sound like fun, but he manages to make it into a very entertaining coming of age adventure/spy romp.
Bellwether
This is only the second Connie Willis book I've read. Like that book this is an excellent read.
Sandra Foster is a sociological researcher at a privately funded institution looking into fads and how they start, who is bought into contact with a researcher into Chaos Theory called Bennett O'Reilly after a parcel is delivered wrongly to her lab.
Not a book of great events or battles, this instead is all about the characters and the way they interact, the way they see the world and the consequences of those actions.
This book is rather lovely, with a lot of wit and good insight to the human condition and particularly good at skewering the ridiculousness of bureaucracy.
I particularly loved the breakdowns of various fads histories delivered at the start of every chapter.
I would recommend this book to pretty much anybody. I won't guarantee that you'll like it, but those that do will fall totally in love with it..
The Android's Dream
This started off rather slow, but built a really good head of steam and I ended up really enjoying and liking the main characters rather a lot.
The Cassini Division
Third Fall Revolution novel is, for me, the best of the series so far. Following on from the events of the end of The Stone Canal we find ourselves back in the solar system, and at the beginning of the book, back on Earth.
Ellen May Ngwethu is a member of the Cassini Division, an elite (if such a thing can exist in the socialist anarchy of the Solar Union) force detailed with the task of controlling the threat posed by the post-human intelligences that stayed behind at Jupiter.
She's been tasked with finding the man that came up with the physics that allowed the creation of the wormhole, so that a way through to New Mars can be found in order to assess if there's any threat from the stored post-human intelligences that the Jay-Dub copy of Jon Wilde told them about.
A really enjoyable read with some excellent characters and SF ideas.
Highly recommended.
Halting State
By far his best novel so far, Halting State is a near-future thriller set in Edinburgh.
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