4.0

My second qntm book this year after 'There Is No Antimemetics Division,' and I found myself equally fascinated. He mainly writes hard sf in the spirit of Greg Egan/Ted Chiang but shaped by online culture, considering his writing for SCP Foundation and web fiction. qntm plays around with traditional narrative structure, presenting stories through tweets, wikipedia entries, reports, and documentation, and focuses purely on ideas instead of character development or long expositions. And somehow he makes this work, even when some stories feel like rough drafts. I enjoyed everything except the last two stories, though that's probably my fault for trying to finish it in one sitting.