Kiln People
I finished Kiln People last night. I liked it, but then I like pretty much everything David Brin writes, except perhaps when he’s trashing Star Wars. That said, I rate it my least favorite of his books. The problem seems to be the switching among the various incarnations of Morris. Not that it’s confusing, just that it makes the story drag. And the whole “world conciousness” thing at the end was more annoying than it was in Earth. But you do have to give him some credit for building a novel around a premise that’s well off the beaten path of mainstream sci-fi.