Incandescence

Chosen because it's another story about the Amalgam, a setup I like. But it's not so great. Two separate stories only tangentially related. One of them (the Amalgam side) is sort of OK, but the characters are not well written and strangely passive. The other story probably seems great to some people, it's basically about a civilization discovering the theory of Relativity for themselves only in a weird world orbiting a neutron star. Lots of chapters of explaining the development of a scientific theory in great sci-fi detail, and while it may have been well done I just found it tedious. Overall didn't work for me.