Book of the Week: Gridlinked, by Neal Asher
It would be easy to compare Asher to Iain M. Banks: British writer of space opera, more accessible and less dystopian than Alastair Reynolds or China Mieville. The thing about Asher, though, is that he does a very good job of writing about people who are more committed to violence than is really healthy, which allows an unhinged terrorist's cross-galaxy vendetta to be both unsettling and entertaining. Although I saw the ending coming, you've got to like any novel that can make you root for both the recently de-linked operative jonesing for his interface and the psychopathic android who carries around a toy doggie.