Title: The Star Fraction
Author: Ken MacLeod
Rating:
4 stars out of 5
Publisher: Tor
Copyright: 1995
Pages: 320
Keywords: speculative fiction
Reading period: 19–26 April, 2009
A few decades hence, Britain has devolved into balkanized ministates.
A Trotskyite, space-loving mercenary inadvertently awakens an AI
and sparks the revolution.
The plot is unsummarizable, but it's entertaining and complex,
mixing action, political theory, cyberpunk, and romance.