I just found this thread. I was expecting it to be announced on the home page like the voting was.
At any rate, I thoroughly enjoyed
Risen, and will be coming back for some more Strnad in the future. I especially enjoyed the short stories, which I read before reading the novel.
For anyone interested in seeing how Jan Strnad operates in another medium, may I recommend the graphic novel,
The Sword of the Atom. It's published by DC, and can be ordered at
Amazon. The story opens with Ray Palmer (the Atom) catching his wife in a compromising position with another man and ends in a South American rain forest where he has encountered a hidden society of six-inch tall humanoid descendants of aliens who crash landed on Earth in the distant past. Will he return to his wife, Jean, or will he find a new life and love among the aliens? It was a very enjoyable and suspenseful book.