CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

I finished CREATIVE DESTRUCTION by Edward M. Lerner. I particualrly enjoyed the story "The Day of the RFids." Nice pun in the title, and a plausible extrapolation of the current RF-ID technology. Big Brother even in your socks.

The title story, "Creative Destruction," is also quite good. It is another take of the problems caused by an infucion of alien technology carried by radio beams. Think Ophuichi Hotline. I read this book to see if Niven had paired up with a writer of just someone to carry the water for him. Lerner is a writer that knows the basics of telling a story. And he manages to insert some cool science into it. The forthcoming book FLEET OF WORLDS promises to be a fine one.