yacoob
I'm very ambivalent about this book.On one hand, it has fair amount of interesting concepts, little scientific in-jokes and interesting construction of the world. On other hand, it has horribly paper-thing characters, that don't really develop - their behavior looks like something that was reverse-engineered back from their final positions and things that they were supposed to do. The overall plot was rather oneiric, with just a bit of too much of a randomness and deus ex machinae overdose.Overall, it wasn't a bad book - but at multiple points it seemed coarse and unrefined, leaving much field for improvement. As this was my first meeting with Rudy Rucker, I don't really know whether it's rule for him or an exception.
I'm very ambivalent about this book.On one hand, it has fair amount of interesting concepts, little scientific in-jokes and interesting construction of the world. On other hand, it has horribly paper-thing characters, that don't really develop - their behavior looks like something that was reverse-engineered back from their final positions and things that they were supposed to do. The overall plot was rather oneiric, with just a bit of too much of a randomness and deus ex machinae overdose.Overall, it wasn't a bad book - but at multiple points it seemed coarse and unrefined, leaving much field for improvement. As this was my first meeting with Rudy Rucker, I don't really know whether it's rule for him or an exception.