One of the issues with post-singularity, post-humanity SF novels is that you can quickly lose any sense of connection with the characters; the world becomes so foreign that you stop caring who lives or dies. Though I stopped caring about the characters in the book, kudos to Doctorow for creating a...
Actually impossible to follow.
I've read two of Cory Doctorow's other books, and I normally like his writing. But I just couldn't get through this one. He and coauthor Charles Strauss do technobabble in this one the way Tom Clancy used to go overboard on the weaponry techspeak in his books. Dense, dense, dense. And I didn't reall...
hugely enjoyable stuff from doctorow and stross. I've not read any Doctorow before now, will have to make amends directly.
Amusing light science fiction with interesting things to think about without a lot of heavy lifting required of the reader.
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