I finished reading Probability Sun by Nancy Kress on the Hawaii trip, and wanted to plug it here. Probability Sun won the John W. Campbell award for best science fiction novel a few years ago and it was well deserved. Set in the same universe as her award-winning story "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," Probability Sun features human interactions with two alien species (one rabidly aggresive humans are at war with, another that "shares reality"), and alien technology from a long-gone civilization. Particularly compelling to me was that the conflict was entirely among the humans, all acting toward noble goals individually, but terribly at odds with each other. Probability Sun is the second book of a trilogy, but can be read on it's own.
Posted by Mike at April 2, 2005 11:28 AM