Oh, I agree with you. I read an interview in which KSR said he was going to stop writing novels, and I honestly believe that’s for the best. Half the chapters i

Oh, I agree with you. I read an interview in which KSR said he was going to stop writing novels, and I honestly believe that’s for the best. Half the chapters in “Ministry for the Future” would have made good short stories on their own, but there’s not much stringing them together. Philip K Dick said “A short story is about a murder, but a novel is about a murderer.” I don’t think KSR writes well enough about people to sustain novels. Certainly not his latter work, anyway.