'The Stone Canal' is easier to follow, but still very heavily politicized and still, largely, an 'immediate' future history story. 'The Star Fraction' is perhaps the most intimidating, with it's complex, sometimes strange-seeming, and pervasive political schemeing and plotting occasionaly almost getting in the way of being able to grasp the story. MacLeod has a penchant for heavily political SF as much as anything else, his books are politics-meets-hard-scifi, and the Fall Revolution stuff is certainly no exception. Now, Macleod's series isn't what most would call traditional in it's structure the three books I've read so far are linked, events and - sometimes - people and places are common to both, but the style in which they're written varies, the timeframe varies, and the stories themselves exist on their own, more or less previous tomes are reccomended reading, but not necessarily essential to understanding the basics of the story. So I went out and bought the other three books: The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division and The Sky Road. Now, when I bought 'The Star Fraction', I didn't think it was part of a series. On the menu of late: Ken Macleod's excellent Fall Revolution series. And travelling, for me, means I can invent time to start making the pile of books that's threatening to topple over and bury me every time I walk into the room a tiny bit smaller (how can you resist a 30% off sale? And a 30% off second-hand book sale after that? HOW?).
Potentially Spoilery review of Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series through 'The Cassini Division' follows.
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