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A set of short stories set in Reynold's Revalation Space universe. Mankind has separated into different cultures. One has rejected integration with machine, one has embraced it and gain a collective intelligence, the other tries to balance between the two. There are stories of human and machine intelligences and the changes that they undergo. Reynold writes some interesting new science fiction, I'll have to have a look at some of the novels set in this universe.

With the politic situation of Earth declining rapidly a project colonise Mars seems to be the only hope. Man cannot live there but man can be change. Man can become a Martian. This is partly a story of how a man might be changed and what he would experience. There's also a bunch of politics going on behind the scenes.