Science Fiction

Imagine a world where you can travel from sun to sun in wooden ships, without worrying about space suits since all of space is filled with air. Imagine a world without planets, with spinning town wheels to emulate gravity to keep humans – descended from us planet dwellers – healthy in a free fall environment.

You might like this book if you enjoy:

• action-filled thriller type plots
• time travel
• science fiction stories with philosophical implications, but not too much
• doom and apocalypse

Keep reading if you would like to know my thoughts on Final Days in a context of hard science fiction. 

It's gift-giving season again. The time of year when you want to buy really good things to people you love, and you realize again that you don't really understand their taste in books.

To summarise: I think you might like this book if you

• like Ken MacLeods earlier work
• are interested in history, or big political questions
• want realistic female protagonists (not superwomen)
• enjoy reality leakage and sense of wonder in your fiction

Through most of The Restoration Game you can safely allow yourself to believe that you are reading a kind of contemporary spy thriller, although kind of light on the action and violence and heavy on the personal history of the geek girl protagonist Lucy.