Title: This book doesn't have a lame ending...
Product review: ...or a flacid plot. This one drives all the way through purposefully while politely handling repeated encounters with old characters like a dream party. The plot gives us the author's message or hope for technology's application to our lives in the coming era despite the intentions of the puppet masters behind it all. Characters, infinitely deep by science fiction standards, are thin, but his snippets of language and snapshots of culture are really enjoyable, as good as ever. And then there's the filter of civilization's products through the lens of a marketing VP or economist, Italian this, Russian that; it annoys me like a commercial does; I feel I haven't discovered yet why he does this, what he's trying to achieve. It's cheap stereotype. It gets in the way of life there in his books. Those diversions of sourcing and hype are speedbumps in the lives of his characters and maybe that's the point.
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