Nova Swing (2006)

Light, Nova Swing, and Empty Space, and they do have some really strange stuff in them. So if you're after the sort of brave new weird of extreme hard SF space opera combined with new wave style and scale then these are the books to go for.

if Jeff vmir is Annihilation or China mayal's writingappeal to you the Nova swing winner of both the Arthur C Clark and Philip Kdick Awards might well work for you too