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Alastair Reynolds: Century rain (2006, Ace Books)

"Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe …

Review of 'Century rain' on 'Goodreads'

Quite a good story. I was more than happy to gloss over some oddities in the storytelling (Our hero, an archeologist who has never handled a gun, has no problem dispatching multiple engineered-to-kill terrorchildren) for a great setting and lots of itch scratching in detective and scifi genres