Title: A disappointment
Product review: I am a rabid Greg Egan fan first hooked with permutation city but this book just wasn't up to standard. Egan's best quality in his work is the power of his ideas and this work was considerably lacking in them. Every other book of his I've read has left me staring off into space every other page going...wow could that happen..or thats nifty. I did that perhaps once in this book.The only possible explanation I can think of is that Egan paid attention to all those people who kept screaming about not enough charachter development. Well don't listen to them (at least not if it reduces the density of ideas) plenty of sci-fi books have reasonable charachter development only yours had extroadanairy speculative ideas.
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