====== Matter ===== In my bid to try and finish at least one book a month this year, I've finished //Matter// by Iain M Banks. It was harder going that his other books that I've read recently (e.g., //Surface Detail//, which I thought was excellent) but it did give me some ideas to feed into a potential //Traveller// campaign - notably the interaction between the different societies of wildly varying technological advancement. The ending was... different, but not something that he hasn't done before. Next up is //The Prefect// by Alistair Reynolds. Ideally, I'd like to get back into the habit of reading at least a book a week, but I have too many other things on for this to be likely any time soon.