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Title: more noise than signal
Review: Interesting plot premise, but I couldn't get into the style. It's not really accurate to use the phrase "hard science" anywhere in connection with this book. The prose took so much effort to establish imagery that it interfered with the narrative flow. I actually wound up skimming parts of the book in a semi-desperate attempt to see if it got any better. It didn't.Not my thing, although folks who enjoy Bill Burroughs might give it a whirl. For what it's worth, the next book in the series, "A Signal Shattered", is even more disjointed.If you are expecting hard science fiction in the sense of Niven or Clarke, stay away. I don't buy the PKD comparison, either. I've been devouring every Phil Dick book I could find since 1969. Dick wrote some muddled-reality sequences to cover when his characters were going through a crisis period, but in this case the whole book is written in that style.
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