Like some commenters said, Bacigalupi manages to bring a sort of Gibsonesque lyrical quality to SF and this is something I sorely miss. Also, the setting is fresh (never read anything set in Thailand and using the backdrop with such gusto).

Clearly my rating comes as a fan of Dick. With neutral eyes I'd have given it 3.

It sags a lot around the 60% mark, and when I finally pulled through I had forgotten half of the people's roles who get reintroduced at that point.

A delicious and gnarly read. If you always wanted to know what upbeat, positive and yet very trippy sci-fi reads like, this is a good start into Rudy Rucker's work.

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Fantastic, in very few pages I learned more useful new things about vim than in 10 years of just messing around with it.

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