/lit/ - Literature

Read this last week. Reminded me of The Diamond Age in a lot of ways, but I was ultimately unsatisfied because I was more interested in the setting ("half-assed Singularity") than the plot, and Gibson spends hardly any time showing you the society. The central plot device is actually a form of time travel which Gibson openly acknowledges was inspired by the intentionally goofy short story Mozart in Mirrorshades. The conceit just took up too much time that could have been used for something more interesting and plausible.

The ending was obviously rushed and unsatisfying, although it wasn't Stephenson-tier.

On the whole, I actually preferred the Pattern Recognition/Blue Ant books.

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by 'this' I meant picrelated