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Review title: Brilliant ideas, little suspense
Product review: A lot of people read SF primarily for the ideas, and I'd argue there is no better fiction for that purpose. Add at least two stars to this review if you are an 'ideas' reader, because Stephenson has more ideas than the next five successful SF writers combined.For me, though, the lack of suspense, the lack of absorbing characters, and the lack of story momentum led me to abandon this book after I had dutifully slogged through more than half of it.Maybe it picks up dramatically near the end, but frankly, at this point, I just felt my reading time would be better spent elsewhere.It would be interesting to see Neal Stephenson team up with a strongly character-based SF luminary for a collaboration.
