Reviews and Comments

This book was certainly fun and contained a handful of interesting ideas. However, I was missing a coherent throughline to the book. It really just draws a lot of analogies and relates separate things (often in very interesting ways). Especially if you don't follow 'tech politics' as obsessively as I do, you might find a lot of fun (and depressing) things in here.

Lots and lots of great character moments. I love this series!

This book is so much fun! An excellent sequel. Many exciting world building reveals, some nice character development and chemistry. What more can you ask for?

Even though it took me a long time to read, I really enjoyed this one. It essentially revolves around living immersed in academia/in the ivory tower and the personal and ethical questions that come with it. This, of course, is pretty closely related to what I'm currently doing. The language is really nice as well.

The most enjoyable aspect of this book is that it takes place in a world where all aspects of corporate culture have been taken to absurd extremes. Apart from that, it is Richard Morgan's usual bleak and violent vision of the future that I have come to love.

Compared to the previous book, the pace picks up a bit. By the end, most of the hanging threads get tied up somewhere.

The book is quite fun. Sailing in space is a shockingly sound concept. The most surprising aspect of this book is that it is very British, both in the language the characters use but especially the made up future slang. Very fun!

I originally picked this up because the tag-line looked like this book would be about Roko's basilisk. While this is technically not wrong, the concept really just plays a world building role (like FTL travel and ansible communication) rather being the focal point of the story. It is not even explained, just implied and the reader is expected to know about it already.

The main theme of the story are cosmic horrors and the relationship between science and spiritualism, done in a very interesting way. It should be noted that although this is about cosmic horrors, it is not at all scary. Overall, it was not at all what I was expecting but nonetheless very nice!

This is quite different from what I usually read but I liked it a lot. It's just very funny in the beginning, later on it gets a little more dramatic. The only criticism that I have is that the book is ~700 pages of buildup for ~100 pages of payoff, but that seems to be by design.

I'm reading the German translation of this (the original is Dutch).

I'm still not quite sure what to make of this. The most interesting aspect of the book, I think, is that you get to see a lot of quite technical topics in logic through the eyes of a journalist who is not really a mathematician. Also, the language is quite nice. Overall, I liked it.