The Quiet Postwar

To those of you enjoying the Pyr edition of Paul McAuley's incomparable The Quiet War, I say this: "ner ner n'ner ner, I've read the sequel". It's called Gardens of the Sun, and I've blogged an instant review too. If The Quiet War deserves to sweep all before it in America (and it does) then Gardens of the Sun deserves to do just as well: it makes a coherent whole with the first book, and together they constitute "a very major work of contemporary science fiction, amongst the great genre achievements of the noughties, a long novel that will still be being read and remembered fifty years from now ... If you have any interest in SF today you’ll need to read both books." Or that, at least, is what I think. [AR]