“Interesting cross-genre mystery-thriller-sci fi, including a plucky lady cop, a plucky lady corporate drone looking for a way out, the shadowy underworld, a budding romance, a nerd programmer guy, D&D (I did a saving throw for not putting the book down when I realized the author was a RPG fan), Scotland, driverless automatic cabs, chicks with swords. It has it all. Actually, any excesses in the pan-genre grabbing-of-ideas were out-weighed by Stross' ability to tell a story. That's what this is: a good yarn. Not deathless prose, but a fine solid tale well told.”
Christina M wrote this review Friday, February 13 2009.
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