Perfection

This book is an explosion of ideas, astounding and obvious and transformative and crazy and valid. And the people are people, and intensely human through it all.

It feels odd to say that this is the best piece of science fiction I've ever read, both because how could that not be hyperbole, and because "science fiction" at the same time doesn't do it justice.

But there it is: this is the best piece of science fiction I've ever read.

No doubt that's partly because it happens to fit my personal tastes and interests so very perfectly.

But also, it's just that good.