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thorpey's review
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
barrynorton's review
5.0
Three awesome short stories, pitched as fan service after Infinite Detail, with "infinite f***ing detail" as the repeated motif, as were the Gibson references: there rent-a-cop turns into a rent-a-fed with Gregg's sausage rolls, the rubbish tip has "strange of compacted ethylene monomers", and indeed that whole third story can be read as a re-telling of three opening of Virtual Light in Maughan's Bristolian universe (in which container shipping is the intersection with Gibson's).
My favorite, though, was the middle one. All the expected features - AR, gaming, music - but with a twist reflecting on rampant consumerism, which set up the last story perfectly.
My favorite, though, was the middle one. All the expected features - AR, gaming, music - but with a twist reflecting on rampant consumerism, which set up the last story perfectly.
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