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Newton’s Wake

This is an entertaining piece of far future science fiction. Set in a future where humans live on throughout the galaxy after the effects of a war between post human intelligences.
The story largely takes place on a planet where the people believe that they are the only survivors of the ‘Hard Rapture’. They are rudely disabused of this notion by a team scavenging amongst the post human technology left behind on the planet. The events in the book follow on from this point.
I’ve not read much in the way of science fiction recently, but this one I definitely enjoyed. No literary masterwork, but it has enough good ideas, novel takes on future society and entertaining plot to keep you reading.
Rating: B-