A Thousand Open Doors

This is the first book of John Barnes' far-future sci-fi series, which I just finished re-reading in the run up to the imminent release of the fourth book, The Armies of Memory. I'll probably have a big ol' post on some issues with the series when I get to the third book, but for now, just a general recommendation: this series is good stuff.

Something else to note is that this is one of three excellent series involving fictional societies that become more casually violent in reaction to the availibilty of resurection technology or equivalent magic. The other two being Richard Morgan's Kovacs series, and Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. And John Varley's Eight Worlds comes close, with 'medicine that makes anything other than severe head trauma survivable' standing in for ressurection...