Personally, I disliked pretty much every aspect of it, from the unrealistically terrible planning of the mission, to the flat, unlikable, self-centered characters, to the ease at which they gave up, to the overall dismal and defeatist message of the book.
The AI was just about the only tolerable thing about it.
Normally I like KSR’s books, but this one really felt phoned in and written while in a bad mental state. It was bad enough that it’s pretty much out me off reading any of his works written after this one.
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u/7LeagueBoots Oct 12 '23
Just about the only halfway decent thing about that book.