![]() generating sufficient power to run manufacturing plants on a satellite of Jupiter by wrapping conductors around the satellite, across the poles, to create a conducting loop to move through Jupiter's magnetic field), and the belief in the Singularity so without skepticism, that I stopped drinking the Kool-Aid at about page 220, and had to gut out the last half of the book without the necessary suspension of disbelief that is why I read science fiction in the first place. The science was so outlandishly bad (e.g. I like hard SF and cyberpunk that explores social mores and the impacts of technology and science upon society. ![]() However, this novel was thoroughly disappointing. ![]() OK, let's start with the fact that the book jacket compared Charles Stross's writing with William Gibson and Neal Stephenson at their best.Īs a reader who has a serious crush on Stephenson's writing, I instantly had an expectation was set up in my mind, as you can imagine. ![]()
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