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commented on Existence by David Brin

Existence (2013) 2 stars

In a future world dominated by a neural-link web where people can tune into live …

I have no fucking idea yet what is going on in this book.

This edition has unexplained dotted underlines randomly under some words. I can explain them away as faux hyperlinks in the Helvetica sections but they are in the Times New Roman sections too. Is there some clever spy code revealed later in the novel, or did the typesetter forget to turn off spellcheck in their word processor? It’s quite offputting.