Robert Reed - Sister Alice

• Author: Robert Reed
• Title: Sister Alice
  
• Publisher: Tor 2003
• ISBN: 978-0-765-30225-0

Holy crap, what a weird story.  A far far far far future universe where godlike posthumans do stuff that I didn't even understand in the name of terraforming and running the universe for the common folk.  There is a wikipedia entry for this novel, which is made up of 5 previously published short stories.  A bit too weird for my liking, although I did finish it and the general story made sense.  I dunno if I can really take the idea of "Dark Matter Talents" too seriously though.