I’VE PRAISED CHARLES STROSS’S IRON SUNRISE AND SINGULARITY SKY. Now, via John Scalzi, I see that Stross has a new book coming out. I haven’t read it, but Scalzi has seen an advance copy and thinks it’s going to be the book to beat in 2005, which has him a bit depressed since his book is one of the ones that will have to beat it. Not having read the new Stross book, I can’t say, but Scalzi’s is very strong. And Scalzi’s gotten a lot of blog-buzz, though he’d probably get more if, like Stross, he had a warblogger as a major character . . . .