Malka Older

good conclusion. i really liked the characters in this series, and didn't want to let them go. but beyond that, i was really interested in the balanced treatment of the subject matter. the idea of information as the basic of a technological bureaucracy separate from politics (and policy), floated in the first book, the case against it floated in the middle book, and here a semi-inevitable breakup of the world all that created, with new models contemplated down the road. it's not set in our time, but rather in the latter part of this century, although obviously there are many reasons in our time to be interested in how the author analyses this model in the field, and where she chooses to take it.… (plus d'informations)