Lake of Darkness
Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
I WAS not too long ago requested for my definition of “arduous science fiction” and I burbled one thing alongside the strains of “it has to have a variety of science in it, and in addition spaceships”. I’m undecided the spaceships bit is correct. But when, for the sake of this text, my horrible definition is the one in play, then Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts hits the mark 100 per cent.
On this case, the spaceships are two deep-space…