Some of the best new science-fiction I've read in a long time. McAuley takes us on a sprawling ecological space opera from a post-ecological collapse earth, to the transhuman moons of the outer system. The war of the title is notably quiet, it's a war of subversion and deceit, much like this book inverts the typical action-packed space opera tropes. But it's smart, insightful, full of fantastic images, and best of all, has three capable female main characters.