Wow, what a great crop of summer books! A new book from Richard Morgan (Market Forces), author of two of my favorite hard-boiled SF books (Broken Angels and Altered Carbon); Dan Simmons’ sequel to the excellent Ilium (Olympos); the yearly Year’s Best Science Fiction, and two new Neal Stephenson books (co-written with Frederick George): Cobweb and Interface).
Of course, the fall isn’t looking too shabby either: Morgan has a third Takeshi Kovacs book (Woken Furies) due in late September, and John Birmingham has Designated Targets, the sequel to his excellent Weapons of Choice (which somehow I forgot to review). S.M. Stirling even has a sequel to Dies the Fire, The Protector’s War, that I’ll plan on reading.
And, doggone it, Barry Eisler somehow managed to sneak out a new book in his John Rain series (other reviews here), Killing Rain. That’s going straight to the top of my reading list.
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