finished The Man from Primrose Lane last night and it is really, really, really, really good. an excellent mind bending sci-fi mystery.
now i'm reading will mcintoshs Soft Apocalypse which is about people in their 20s trying to survive the collapse of the United States. It's treating the apocalypse much like the last 3 years turned up to 11. Huge unemployment, bands of modern gypsies, people with humanities degrees living in the street with one another just to survive etc.
edit: jesus christ this book is depressing. it's about people caught in the middle of the collapse, not some hard nosed survivalists, it's about people just trying to get by which makes it all the more gut wrenching; that slow steady and inescapable decline where there is no way out and there are no winners.