I love the sci-fi lore in this book as a loose sequel to accelerando, I love the world building, I think Stross still played a little loose with the consistency of his technological world, but the characters are much deeper and better defined than Accelerando which is great.
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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