Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

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.
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Year 12 Perspectives

I like this exhibit, you get a lot of angsty, self-reflective work (which I think is just the curse of being 17) but you also get very alive interesting stuff well worth seeing.

There were some great portraits, a charming wooden sculpture of a goldfish, some odd 'high fashion' garments, a very likable tapestry, some enigmatic multimedia stuff and a beautifully worked model of a cob of corn done in beads and wires that you really have to see to appreciate how good it was.