Damien Ryan

What started off as a pretty dull, sub-Crichton, Space Cowboy type story turned into something much more compelling half way through. You need to persist past the near future 2010 and initially clunky technobabble but then pay-off is worth it; the same mind-bending stuff that Bear and Simmons regularly trade in.

The original gray goo apocalypse. These days we're afraid of nanotechnology and cyber-singularities, but apart from a couple is quaint leftovers from the eighties (disk drives, what no Internet?) it's still a fresh as when I first read it.

If this could be any more abhorrent I'd be surprised. A bible and a manual for a new generation of toxic masculinity, which has set back the cause of equality fifty years. Avoid like the plague it is.

I am haunted by humans.

Ugh. Randian nonsense strikes again; what is it about white American males that makes them mistake their privilege for exceptionalism?