The big aha

This was fun, but felt a lot like a return to Rucker's earliest novels, while not quite living up to their inventiveness. Perhaps it's that none of the "big" ideas in the novel felt like ones not yet explored in his previous novels. Sure, they were not presented in this exact configuration previously, but nothing really felt totally original. Where the novel really shone, as per usual with Rucker, were in the myriad of original details. All the "little" ideas, products specific to this interesting new biotech future. Some had been explored in previous novels, sure, but there were some fun new ones too.