Title: Not up to Egan's Standards
Product review: A weaker effort from an otherwise brilliant writer. The book's main message seems to be to promote science and rationalism against superstition and sociobabble. Egan's scenes featuring postmodern sociologists Keith and Anita are the high points in the book:"Well, I'd already done a Ph.D. in X-Files Theory at UCLA, and Anita was just starting her Master's in Diana Studies with the University of Leeds, via the net. U Toronto was in the process of opening its own Department of Transgressive Discourseat last!so it was only natural that we both applied for positions."Unfortunately, the book severely undermines that message with a weak ending that essentially asks the reader conditioned to rationalism to take a denouement full of biobabble on faith.While I wouldn't hesitate to highly recommend any other novel by Egan, I cannot recommend this one.
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