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Salt by Adam Roberts
A wild card (e.g. from the library shelf) novel from a lecturer in English literature, who (unsurprisingly) knows his Lucrecius and nation-building but (surprisingly) chemistry and propulsion systems. Even better, the book does not belong to SpyFy or action-SciFy, which comprise 95% of all modern SyFy and which I tolerate for the "Sci" part. There is a war but not in Pearl Harbor tradition, closer to Platoon.
The moneyless anarchic society - especially and because of the warts - looks more convincing than Noon: 22nd Century's communist one. At the end the narrrators' voices start to sound a bit too similar to each other, but the end itself is suitably gloomy, Thomas Hardy wouldn't have been disappointed.
The moneyless anarchic society - especially and because of the warts - looks more convincing than Noon: 22nd Century's communist one. At the end the narrrators' voices start to sound a bit too similar to each other, but the end itself is suitably gloomy, Thomas Hardy wouldn't have been disappointed.