Singularity Sky

Singularity Sky - Charles Stross

In a galaxy where faster than light travel is banned by a man made artificial intellgence with a tendency to overeact in it's enforcement of the edict, a technologicaly repressive regime aims to "bend" the rules when it is attacked by a superior force that drops the technology to create more or less anything into the hands of everybody on the planet, what happens when every nutter with a grudge can get his hands onto nuclear weapons or biological agents?
Caught up in this event is a UN diplomat, and a starship engineer, who must prevent the casuality violation before it leads to the deaths of millions....
A very good story,  Stross delivers another exciting sci-fi thriller...