ION CURTAIN
► RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Paperback/ebook
► Author Anya Ow
► Publisher Solaris
➜ While reading Ion Curtain, you can’t shake the sneaking suspicion that the punning title came before the plot. A serviceable but formulaic space opera, it doesn’t bring much new to the genre beyond its basic set-up: a future where space is divided into two great, opposing empires that originated on Earth – the VMF, which grew out of the Russian Federation, and the Asianrooted UN (China having been the first country to gain a colonial foothold in space).