So in my continuing line of ebook reviews, I present Vernon Vinge’s Rainbows End.

Actually, this won’t be much of a review. It is freely available (at the link above, but I also have an Amazon.com link for the pretty cover) on his website and I highly recommend that you read it. This is a “near future” type book, before the the singularity (which honestly, I believe in as a concept, but I don’t think we are anywhere near the point that we’ll have to worry about computers taking over our world – I work with computers and they continually confound me at how non-intelligent they are!) and much before Vernon Vinge’s other works.

It is an excellent novel. Go read it now. I’ve bought a lot of Vernor Vinge’s novels, and I think they are great. Maybe that is just because he’s an ex-computer science professor, but he’s written some really interesting stuff, even his earlier works (like Marooned in Realtime) which I think are kind of under-appreciated.