I like the ‘Space Gothic’ parts. I have always had a weakness for horror/gothic set in a vast decaying starship/space-ship (see movies: Pandorum, that one Hellraiser movie, Event Horizon, Sunshine even). The book opens with a quote from Graeber's academic work Debt: The First 5,000 Years, which I have been reading just a week before starting the book. The scope is vast, and I hope the other Stross books I haven’t read have this characteristic as well. The characterizations are good, great. Interesting technological reveals. Social and economic and political explorations. Neptune’s Brood has just given me more motivation to finish Graeber’s book.