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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Classic gentleman thief vs detective subplot within a heavy sf setting. A little china mieville ish and very enjoyable.
Amazing future setting and awe-inspiring how a galactic organization and planet-wide system can be brought down to the level of three characters that Rajaniemi actually makes you care about despite all the setting and technology that has to be introduced and (at least briefly) explained.
Interesting world design with some transhuman themes but the pacing felt slow at times.
I just gotta say - this book out-fictioned it's science. When you're constantly wishing there were a dictionary in the back, there's a problem. There are so many made-up words in this book that are only in context with each other, instead of in context with plain English, that I just gave up trying to figure out what the F concepts they were trying to convey and muddled through without them.
I got through it, but I feel like I missed half of what it was trying to say, because the author was trying harder to use interesting concepts of modern technology than he was trying to make them /understandable/ concepts. And this is coming from a child of the '70s who cut her teeth on sci-fi, was at UCSC when it first connected to UCB and GA Tech, and prefers vi to emacs.
The book had so much potential. I can smell it, but I can't see it. Let's be honest - "grok" is now common vernacular because it was conveyed effectively. "gevulot" will never reach that height.
I got through it, but I feel like I missed half of what it was trying to say, because the author was trying harder to use interesting concepts of modern technology than he was trying to make them /understandable/ concepts. And this is coming from a child of the '70s who cut her teeth on sci-fi, was at UCSC when it first connected to UCB and GA Tech, and prefers vi to emacs.
The book had so much potential. I can smell it, but I can't see it. Let's be honest - "grok" is now common vernacular because it was conveyed effectively. "gevulot" will never reach that height.
I'm still not sure entirely if I liked this book or not, or really even knew what was going on...but what a crazy ride.
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced