Walter Jon Williams's Implied Spaces

S.M. Stirling tells me that I must buy this book:

Night Shade Books: Williams, Walter Jon - Implied Spaces: Implied Spaces pioneers a new genre of SF--the 'Sword & Singularity' novel. Williams combines fantasy tropes believably with nanotech, bleeding-edge infotech speculation, classic smashing-planets space opera and intriguingly human, or possibly post-human characters along with a fast-moving plot and a quirky sense of humor in a melange that's cosmological, theological, ontological, comic, and thoroughly entertaining.

Comments

[bob]

Forget that old universe.
Fafnir is back, and he's busting out!
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/

[Paul]

In what venue did Stirling tell you to read it?

(FWIW, I just started Stirling's own latest novel, IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS)

[Paul]

Duh. Didn't click through.

I've liked Williams ever since his Dread Empire series...where he deliberately crafts an old style space opera universe without singularities or AIs but with tons of interesting characters.