Counting Heads
Counting Heads, by David Marusek.
I picked up this book on recommendation from, I forget, maybe Making Light. It took me a while to start it and get through it, and now that I’m done I’m ambivalent. I mean, it’s got clones, and ubiquitous nanotech, and interstellar colonization; all kinds of cool bells and whistles. But the story just didn’t grip me. I couldn’t figure out who the protagonist was supposed to be, and the resolution at the end didn’t seem like the story had actually gone anywhere. Oh well. It was fun enough, but I don’t think I’d read it again, or recommend it to anyone.