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Title: Worth reading
Review: I love space opera, and was pretty pleased with this. Although maybe not quite on par with the earlier stuff by Iain Banks (Consider Phlebas, Against a Dark Background), and Vernon Vinge; it is much, much better than Peter Hamilton, which isn't hard sf at all. He writes about disguised zombies, while Reynolds keeps it real. The story is exciting, and of course the secrets should be released little by litte. The person complaining about BIG SECRETS being dumped suddenly really doesn't grasp how a story should unfold, and should stick to kid's novels. Reynolds provides good, hard sf, a little bloated maybe, but not too much, not like the overswelling Hamilton-novels, who seem to decide beforehand to make his novels 1200+ pages. Anyway, I intend to read more of Reynolds, as this was most convincing. But if you haven't read early Banks, I would do that first.
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