I love Adrian Tchaikovsky and this newer dimension-spanning epic has all of his fabulous upsides, like really cool ideas + technology, brain melting twists, and great characters that I really cared about - but unfortunately this book dragged quite a bit compared to some of his earlier work - I think it could've been 20% shorter.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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