I was hoping to write a piece on the latest volume of Ian Douglas' fascinating wide screen space opera series that mashes military SF with Arthur C. Clarke-style deep history speculation, early Gregory Benford xeno-archaeology and a touch of Greg Egan mathematics, but ran out of time. That's a project for another day...
Instead here's Calli lazing in a window on a hot, bright sunny day.

Putney, London
July 2008