The Lords of Creation – John C. Wright

This is a 1930s space opera with the bad pseudo-science brought up to date. The characters are two-dimensional, the story is one-dimensional, and plot development consists of increasingly bigger weapons being created or negated by science-ish plot devices. The author seems to have had a blast writing it, and the reader is invited along for the ride.

“The ultradense substance called hypermatter formed an empty sphere of black hole material, but it surrounded a node or oasis of unwarped space at its heart, like a miniature coninuum whose lightcone could be tilted in any direction.”