Star Fraction

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I won't go as far as the author but I think camel cased names are going to look pretty dated in the future. As Ken MacLeod put it in "The Star Fraction", written in 1995 and set in the mid-twenty first century: "The name [FreeSpace] had once seemed trendy, but now dated us painfully - 'very TwenCen', as I'd overheard someone say..."

…"For some reason the ancients encrypted all their records and threw away all the keys, that's why we don't know anything about them..." Ken MacLeod, _The Star Fraction_/_The Cassini Division_/_The Stone Canal_/_The Sky Road_ (Fall Revolution Series). Yes, there sure are a lot of Trotskyists! in! Spaaaaaace! but there's also serious exploration of how technological change affects social structures on the personal and political level. Overview from Reason magazine http://reason.com/archives/2000/11/01/anarchies-states-and-u... and that's just things that unambiguously classify as SF. If you make things a little broader, then you can include novels like the 2008 Hugo winner, _The Yiddish Policeman's Union_, which is classic Michael Chabon applied to alt history.