It is a holiday, I have found time to write. Yay! Have a book review. This is for The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski, which is a very strange book. It took me several chapters before I understood what I was supposed to be reading, or possibly found a way of approaching the book that made it readable. Once I had done so, however, I appreciated a lot of its inventiveness.
By the way, if you are interested in the biology of intelligence I heartily recommend this article about some of the smartest creatures of the planet: octopuses.
It is a little odd: from the moment you’re ascending a space elevator made from anthrax, you know there’s something different going on.
But I enjoyed it too, at least partly because I couldn’t really predict what it was going to do next.