Title: for the techno-brahmin in us all
Product review: I have to give Mcdonald serious points just for the audacity of his vision. Writing India can be next to impossible, and he uses Sci-Fi effectively (albeit heavy handedly) as a way of commenting on a region fractured in ways too numerous to count. The book is at its best when McDonald uses Stephensonesque tech concepts to exacerbate this tension. Mcdonald's prose fluctuates between the prosaically matter of fact, and the oddly lyrical. It's a sprawling, occasionally messy, jubilant juggernaut of a book. It's refreshing to encounter Science Fiction that is not firmly rooted in an American or European setting.
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