Come for the AO3 connection, stay for the
- rich Jewish–Slavic speculative fiction (too rare!),
- superb Freakonomics-grade real-world economics and finance (that is, better than the garbage they teach you in micro and macroeconomics; that scene where she can offer a better price for better wool than the local carters who don’t differentiate enough, a lesson for thoughtful futures traders),
- frightening prediction of the future, where women are invisible, outsiders are downtrodden, and men make the rules, that many authoritarian nationalists seem to crave.