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doorisajar's review
4.0
Even though this book was written well over a decade ago, it reads as though it was written last week. Impressive.
guilhermet's review
2.0
This is exactly like Quarantine except with somehow even less things happening. I guess the first chapter is interesting.
felix20's review
2.0
The central cosmological idea is funny/silly, but perhaps drawn out too long, it was pretty easy to anticipate what the final resolution would be.
The supporting structure is so-so. I found the viewpoint character a little off-putting, there was a point about 10% in where he lost me and I left the book for a while. But in most of the book he's basically a passive observer. Still, there were lots of places he felt weirdly off.
The sinister plotting is goofy, it kept pinging my skepticism sensors.
The treatment of futuristic genders is odd. It's a shallow take on gender and has no effect on the story, except for a strange, poorly-constructed romance involving an asexual in the third act.
The Stateless society is interesting but feels underdeveloped and not really believable, but a lot of that is because the viewpoint char is dismissive of Stateless viability, and fails to engage with it or explore it in any way.
The supporting structure is so-so. I found the viewpoint character a little off-putting, there was a point about 10% in where he lost me and I left the book for a while. But in most of the book he's basically a passive observer. Still, there were lots of places he felt weirdly off.
The sinister plotting is goofy, it kept pinging my skepticism sensors.
The treatment of futuristic genders is odd. It's a shallow take on gender and has no effect on the story, except for a strange, poorly-constructed romance involving an asexual in the third act.
The Stateless society is interesting but feels underdeveloped and not really believable, but a lot of that is because the viewpoint char is dismissive of Stateless viability, and fails to engage with it or explore it in any way.
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