The second best new sci-fi novel I've read this year (after The Wind-Up Girl), Light is an explosive, densely intertwined triple narrative that links the near present with the far future, a psychopathic mathematician with a girl who is a star-ship, and delivers eyeball-kicking writing on every page. This is not an easy or obvious book to read; in some places complications pile up so high that they obscure the plot and the characters, but it is a work of staggering Imagination and Fancy. Light is ultimately about the impossible, about Tasting the Void, as it were, and does a great job of bringing us closer to the imagination and mystery.

Who cares about the details? Have some fun with some genuinely strange people and places!