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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Given the Clarke result, and the universal enthusiasm at Eastercon, it had better be Air, hadn't it?

The Reynolds I admit I picked up mostly from completism; it struck me from opening at random pages in the bookshop as having a kind of mix of Gratuitous Space and Big Dumb Objects which would have to be done really well to compete with pre-existing Niven.