It's building up to a tricky denouement, but if you're not also enjoying the journey, I'd say it's not for you. Some of what I like about Vinge: - Imaginativel

It's building up to a tricky denouement, but if you're not also enjoying the journey, I'd say it's not for you. Some of what I like about Vinge: - Imaginatively exploring grand futures. - Evocative hints you have to fill in yourself. - Intelligent characters. - Computer security as an often central concern. - Tightness. There's a reason he barely manages a novel a decade. - The prose style just breathes sense-of-wonder to me.