Finished: On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds
The second in a planned trilogy following the Akinya family and humanities first steps out of the Solar System. Elephants feature heavily in the first book of this series and they are also present in the second. What their role is at this point, still remains to be seen. It does seem though that the fate of the Akinyas(and therefore humanity as a whole, or at least those on the holoships) and the elephants is closely related.
This book is set another generation into the future than the previous installment with vast caravans of holoships (cored out asteroids) travelling to a planet in another solar system to investigate & colonise a new planet which has some "alien made" features, the primary reason for choosing that planet as one of the first new planets for colonisation. The Akinyas were responsible for this push to move out of the Solar System in both construction of the holoships and development of a new type of physics which enable the ships to travel further and faster then ever before.
I really enjoyed this book. Obviously it is the bridging book in the trilogy and while there is a jump in time, the central characters are still there, albeit in machine form. How and why they are so important will hopefully be revealed in the final book.
I like that when you read one of Alastair Reynolds books, the truth is given out in little parcels, allowing you some satifcation in connecting dots, but not so much that you can prematurely draw the whole picture!
Started: Between Silk & Cyanide: A Codemakers War by Leo Marks
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