nicanical
Too many tangential details and internal thoughts during characterization—I zoned out and had to reread parts many times. Gibson does better with worldbuilding and scene-setting, but he overuses country adjectives: Russian this, Chinese that, etc. I remember this technique from Neuromancer, but it did not feel overused there.
Dialogue though, is tight, clean.
Some details did not add anything to the story for me. E.g., Shapely and the AIDS cure. And I thought Yamazaki's character could have been nixed completely without affecting anything.
For pacing: the book is slow until about halfway, then it slows down again until the very end. Mainly from all the details and thoughts, explained above. The ending feels like it comes out of nowhere, and was not satisfying.
Too many tangential details and internal thoughts during characterization—I zoned out and had to reread parts many times. Gibson does better with worldbuilding and scene-setting, but he overuses country adjectives: Russian this, Chinese that, etc. I remember this technique from Neuromancer, but it did not feel overused there.
Dialogue though, is tight, clean.
Some details did not add anything to the story for me. E.g., Shapely and the AIDS cure. And I thought Yamazaki's character could have been nixed completely without affecting anything.
For pacing: the book is slow until about halfway, then it slows down again until the very end. Mainly from all the details and thoughts, explained above. The ending feels like it comes out of nowhere, and was not satisfying.