Finally finished these monsters. Plenty of cool ideas and detailed depictions of amazing and alien places. Although to be honest I preferred 'A Second Chance of Eden' and look forward to the next set of short stories to be published, which was hinted at on Peter's page. Next on the reading list is 'Matter' by Iain M. Banks, quite a few more have been piled up after taking advantage of Boarders' closing down sale, with between 50%-70% off everything it was hard to resist.