Title: So many good ideas, so little plot
Review: Distraction shows why fiction was really mostly a warm-up for Sterling's current career as non-fiction writer and design futurist agitator. Distraction is peppered with crazy asides: reputation servers, rogue arms of the military, cloth phones.But there is no plot here, none. There are hundreds of pages where the story simply veers from location to location with a cast of characters that seems to grow and shrink for no particular reason. I defy anyone to summarize the central narrative of Distraction in a sentence or two. It can't possibly seriously be categorized as a "thriller", right?
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