Just finished Bowl of Heaven by Niven and Benford which really, really annoyed me. It plods, repeats the same three plot beats about four times and doesn't end, it just stops. Seriously, end of an entirely tensionless scene with nothing resolved you get:
END OF BOOK ONE
I've been sent Shipstar to review as well and am sitting on that for a couple of weeks so it can sit and think about what it's done.
In happier news:)
-Reading The Lost Level out a few days from Apex. Does an awful lot of the things Bowl of Heaven does but does most of them right in half the time and seems to give roughly 80% more of a crap.
-Just finished Armoured, the John Joseph Adams edited power armour anthology, which was great.
-About to start in on the first Judge Dredd mega collection volume, which is the excellent America and it's various sequels