Evolution's Darling

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Summary: a great book
Review: This is great sci-fi, intelligent and extremely well written. Easy to read, thought provoking and entertaining. The AI's are more or less benevolent, which is a nice change, and they are intelligent in a very human, though not human-centric, way. The characterizations are excellent and the plot well woven. I hadn't read any good, *new* sci-fi in a while, and this perfectly slaked my thirst. Read it!

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Summary: Scott Westerfeld has another winner
Review: Well written space opera that explores the idea of copy vs. original and the nature of sentience. Characters you can care about or hate. Sexually explicit. The only drawback for me was that some of the sex while consensual was VERY rough.