Graham Crawford's Reviews > Spin Control

This is really smart, a lot of ideas with a great understanding of the science and some very clever inversions of sexuality norms. I wish Goodreads had half stars - this was almost a 4. I noticed there was a review here criticising the book for the lack of science - I wish that person would point out the errors - I know a lot about programming simple AI - and I didn't spot any clunckers. Perhaps that reviewer wanted huge info dumps of hard science. I guess that's a matter of taste.I prefer my cyberpunk written by women. They have a more human way of dealing with stories about technology - and their characters are always better drawn. You could tell the writer loved all the characters in this book.

They flaws are really just in the basic prose style - the language is not 4 star, but neither is it cringe worthy - It's solid without ever making you laugh out loud or cry. And the ideas aren't old and tired yet... but they have mostly all been done before in some way. Alastair Reynolds had a go at clone sex in "House of Suns" - a dreadful book - this book pulls this of in a believable way. I do wonder though whether this could be classed as a gay novel - as the incestuous transgressions here confuse that possible genre label.