The latest installment of my book review column, STRONG MEDICINE: Books That Cures What Ails You, has just been published at Intergalactic Medicine Show.

In this column, I review Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, and Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, and Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan (on audio).

[Excerpt:] Before listening to Altered Carbon on audio, I’d never been much impressed with Tantor’s audio efforts. I’d listened to a few of their other titles and was consistently disappointed. When I initially heard that Tantor had acquired the audio rights to Morgan’s books, I inwardly groaned, but I looked forward to re-reading them, so I anticipated to the audio release nonetheless, albeit with a sizeable dollop of trepidation. So when I first listened to Altered Carbon, I was surprised and delighted, and thought that I could now expect a higher level of quality out of Tantor’s future titles. But if the first three Richard K. Morgan audiobooks were five steps forward for Tantor, Woken Furies seems like six steps back.

Go read the review and then come back and tell me how awesome it is.