A review by hammard
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling

2.0

Really disappointed in this. I had really enjoyed all Sterling's short fiction from the 80s but this was my first attempt at one of his novels. It seems to jump between pages of exposition on very outdated technology in such detail as to be tedious and then being a trashy Tom Clancy style Techno-Thriller without a real attempt to cover the joints. Sterling's voice is still strong enough to raise it up from being a total disaster but a real disappointment.