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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1850609" data-attributes="member: 149">He does make some serious attempts to look at how some potential scientific breakthroughs could affect societies and people's response to them. For example, a major technological breakthrough postuated is something called affinity. This is a sort of technological telepathy. In addition to the empathetic and communicative ramifications, this means that one's personality can be uploaded into one of the sentient biological habitats. Effective immortality is the result of that, with the sort of reactions one might expect from non-affinity humans, especially those of a religious bent that tends to focus on an afterlife. So the affinity/non-affinity split is one of the divisions between societies in his universe. Nanotechnology is also rampant in his universe and most people with money have nano-enhanced bodies yielding all sorts of physical benefits and mental enhancements. Most people use them to control equipment, communicate, obtain data. It's as omnipresent as cell phones are today.His books are never an uninteresting read, they do if nothing else make you think. So I'd say they are definitely worth a try and he is one of the few new authors I've come across who have grabed my interest in recent years.</blockquote>