Here’s another one I’m going to have to mark down as promising but not quite there yet. Newton clearly has talent and ambition, and in particular is determined to write interesting, character-driven SF, but I’m not sure that this book was quite ready for publication. I may be being rather harsh because I’m not fond of books in which the male characters spend much of their time obsessing over whether they are “man enough”. Nice ending, though. Definitely promise for the future.