Extended Phenotype

Not much to say about MacLeod’s The Cassini Division, other than the fact that it was good fun, and made a five hour flight to Newark go fairly quickly. This is another in a series of novels about technological “singularity,” which is either popular among authors of speculative fiction nowadays, or I must gravitate towards that subset of books (probably both). The book did feature an interesting first-person perspective from a society where true community “socialism” was ingrained for several hundred years, and depicts their horror in encountering a group who still practiced an advanced laissez-faire capitalism. Hilarious…