Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds
This was a good book. Plot felt structured like a whirlpool, in the beginning the disparate stories had little connection; but as the plot progresses it got faster and faster. As before, Reynolds' worldbuilding is MWAH. I particularly liked the 'solution' to Fermi's paradox, and the latter idea of black holes as supercomputers. A very good book, I look forward to reading the rest of the series!