Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds
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.
