Beggar’s Sky is Wil McCarthy’s third novel in his Rich Man’s Sky series, which asks the question: What if future space exploitation is driven by the mega-ultra-super rich – and that’s not intrinsically a bad thing? As you might have guessed, only Baen is the only mainstream SF publisher with enough hair on its ass to actually print the blessed thing…
#commissionearned
Wil McCarthy’s POOR MAN’S SKY is his sequel to RICH MAN’S SKY, which is an entertaining near-future space novel about what it looks like when space-obsessed trillionaires’ pipe dreams actually get turned into actual projects. I liked the first book because it actually treated said trillionaires as functional (albeit weird) human beings. Even the most unpleasant one wasn’t a cackling Bond villain, which is always nice to see. Anyway, it just came out, so I haven’t read it yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.
It is the book loaded in my Kindle, and I am not feeling particularly up to making choices*, so I’m just going to read it until it’s time to go to bed. Wil McCarthy’s Rich Man’s Sky is perfectly good anyway. Twenty years in the future, intrigue in space, etc etc etc. Don’t mind me; I’m on Robutussin right now.
*Yup, still sick. Drinking fluids and eating matzoh.
