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This was a rip-snorter of a book, but I can't help but feel it was too long. Actually most of O'Keefe's books make me feel like this. Approaching a good wrap up point for the story, except no, there's another quarter of the book to go. She's excellent at ramping up stories - tension, release - but she repeats it too many times, so that by the time you reach the end you're a bit fatigued from all of the new obstacles that keep getting placed in the protagonist's path.

Look, I know some people have trouble with Stephenson's writing, but he unfailingly hooks me in and this was no exception. This book didn't even suffer from the Seveneves problem (the final third of the book being far too long and unecessary), it was short and compact, and I'm already hanging out for the second book.

I have a suspicion that Stephenson uses the word "lozenge" in every book. I have just encountered this book's usage ("lozengey").

New Neal Stephenson, let's goooo

Aw man, this was such a sweet, and terrible, and wonderful book. The acknowledgements made me cry.

This was a mixed bag. The Cory Doctorow story was hella depressing. There was randomly a paranormal romance novella (because the author was a plaintiff in an EFF-backed case, I think). The stories were fine but not an especially cohesive collection.