Syne Mitchell

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Going with my habit of picking an author at Pandemonium that nobody's heard of and deciding to like them, I bought Murphy's Gambit by Syne Mitchell last night. I had previously read Technogenesis as well. Her writing is very readable; last night I started reading Gambit when I got on the T after dinner, and finished it around 3 AM. :-) Gambit is fairly straightforward science fiction: a quaddie, um, floater gets into the planetside university, but just before she graduates, she gets drawn into a conspiracy regarding a strange new ship of mysterious origins. It's a good fluffy read. Technogenesis paints an interesting world in which 99% of people are permanently connected to the network, but I didn't find the main character particularly convincing: being frightened is one thing, but having a massive change of world view in the course of a retail transaction is a little much.

(Still to do: find the third book in Sean McMullen's Greatwinter trilogy again, mostly for completeness, and make maps of Australica and Colandoro...)