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technophile's review
4.0
A really interesting book -- murder mystery meets Stephen Baxter. Short but good.
singlecrow's review
4.0
A really interesting, enjoyable SF police procedural, set in a fantastic solarpunk Bengaluru. I thought this vision of India from a non-Indian author was very thoughtful also. One minor disappointment: it’s one of those universes with designer drugs, so people can take uppers/downers when they need to without much ill-effect. I got excited at a main character who seemed to have bipolar (II) disorder, without the story actually being about that (which is something I've been searching for in SFF so far to no avail). Disappointingly it's an artificially induced hypomania - but that's just a minor aside. I recommend it.
bentgaidin's review
5.0
This was an interesting novella, not least because everything felt so familiar that I'd swear I'd read this before, but I was still unable to remember the solution to the mystery until we were right upon it; it speaks well for the world-building and how much I'd enjoyed it. There's also some musings on personal connections in a world where it's (materially) trivially easy to screen out anything and anyone you don't want to hear from, what this does to the people doing the screening, and to those left out but still emotionally tied together. I feel like there's a lot to unpack there, but I haven't yet gotten my head around all of that.
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