Waste Tide

The world had never ceased to change, but it would also never change
for anyone.

I got to this book through reading Ken Liu's translation of Three BodyProblem (one of my favourite sci-fi series). He has done similar greatwork translating this story.The story reminded me of William Gibson writing in many ways(especially Neuromancer storyline), but sprinkled with Chineseculture. The ecology, technology and culture mixing and transformingeach other in an interesting way. Everything done in small steps,believable and not too outlandish or sci-fi, but more cyber punk.Chen Qiufan provided a well balanced amount of information. Enough toform a sense of the world, but not drown the reader in minutia of howthings work. And perhaps the greatest achievement from my point ofview - after reading the book, I am not even sure who were thevillains and who were the victims in the end. Perhaps nobody iswithout fault...