Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

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Oh my.

Let me say that again. Oh My.

Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?

SF at its best; has cunning parallels to Casablanca; must go out and get ALL his stuff right now.

Bibliography
Revelation Space (01) Revelation Space (2000) Ed: Was good
Diamond Dogs (2001) (Chapbook)
Revelation Space (02) Chasm City (2001) Ed: Was good
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2002) (Collection)
Revelation Space (03) Redemption Ark (2002) Ed: Was good
Revelation Space (04) Absolution Gap (2003) Ed: Was good
Century Rain (2004) Ed: Was good
Chasing Janus (2005)