A dealer's room is a dangerous place

[fivemack]

I know Stars in my Pockets ... is the first half of an unfinished duology; is it a sane second Delaney to read, after Triton long ago?

The first half of the Peter F Hamilton I have on (DRMed) disc, but the e-publisher hasn't released the second half in that format.

Several people pointed out even at the con that you can read award shortlists much more cheaply, in shoulder-strain and wallet-ache and waste of bookcase alike, if you wait a year ... but having obtained this pile, where should I start?

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It wasn't that bad; except for the daft US politics, and the entire plot revolving around some truly novel interpretations of relativity ... and the Central Casting villains ...

Semi-reasonable aliens aside from their immunity to physics; reasonable grand vistas; useful as a type-specimen of Carter-era malaise.