Paul McAuley Posts The Blurb From The Quiet War

Paul McAuley has posted the blurb from his upcoming novel The Quiet War, and it sounds very cool "exotic, fast-paced space opera". Here's the first paragraph:

Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems.