I’M READING CHARLES STROSS’S NEW NOVEL, Glasshouse, and enjoying it very much. I think he didn’t try quite as hard as he did with Accelerando, which is good because there, even though that was a good book, it felt like he was trying a bit too hard. The Amazon blurb says that this is set in “the same far-future universe” as Accelerando, and I guess that’s right, but the two books are pretty much freestanding; you certainly don’t need to have read Accelerando to follow the story in Glasshouse.