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.
I wanted to like it, but I wasn't.
I received this ARC for free from the publisher.I started this book... I tried getting through it but I just think I hate the writing. I read several reviews that said the book was very Strossian, and I've been told I would probably would not enjoy his writing, and I think that friend is right.I m...
The wit expected from Stross but without the usual nod to the fetishes and habits that creep into culture and daily life until they become common place. The voice came across more as Stross than Doctorow, and not quite as enjoyable to me as either of them are separately.Still a good post-singularit...
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