A worthy conclusion to the "hard sci-fi" series by this Finnish phenom, I put that in quotes because I think the glorious world-building is actually more poetic than self-consistent, so sometimes the story feels a bit calvinball, but nevertheless it's great writing, great reading, highly recommended.
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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