STG's

The Turing Exception - by William Hertling - is the fourth book in the Singularity series, which starts with an AI being created , has an AI war , AIs and humans (mostly) coexisting and prospering , and now goes to a full dystopia. After a really bad incident, AIs are considered a major threat and many are shut down. The others are not happy with how this is going and are ready to go full Skynet... A lot of interesting tech and ideas here. The previous books started with reasonable, minor advances on today's tech but this went almost full singularity on us. Plenty of nanotech doing a whole lot of stuff, multiple existences through mind uploads, and much more. Overall, really good, with a very reasonable and exciting ending that is not the easy way out (minor spoiler: wait, the AIs design a lot of crazy stuff and build it almost instantly with nanotech, but have to request real rockets? WTF?) (on a funny note, searching the title in Amazon gets you C++ and Object-Oriented Nu

An Unwelcome Quest - by Scott Meyer - is the third novel in the Magic 2.0 series. In the series, some people discover a file that proves that the world is a computer simulation, and end up traveling to the dark ages to use manipulations of the file as magic (sounds silly, I know - but in the novels it goes a lot better than in my summary). In this installment, another of the wizards that were banned without powers get his powers back, and creates a deadly quest for the wizards that banned him. Overall, pretty good, although a bit short and not as good as the first book. Still, if you liked the series it is well worth reading.

Imminence - Highland World in Crisis - by David Trump - is an SF novel with an interesting mix of high and low tech. The novel starts with a cute premise - using an asteroid with uploaded people to colonize new worlds. I can't recall seeing a hyper drive where you actually moved back in time, though. After an accident, a colony is created, which leads to a society that is low tech except for some elements that most people don't understand (such as transports between the separate worlds). I usually prefer more high tech, but this worked well, and overall I found it interesting, although it feels like the writing could be better.