Kind of weird, but good weird. This was recommended to me after I requested solid fiction about the Singularity, and it delivered. Extra points awarded for the cybernetic transhuman (transfeline?) cat as an important character. Slight demerit for a strangely-underplayed rape scene in the first chapter and a hilariously-inaccurate representation of BDSM.

I liked the middle of this book a lot. I thought the first few chapters were hard to follow and the ending was anticlimactic... and I didn't really bother trying to grok a lot of the legal/economic stuff, which in any case was I think meant to be incomprehensible. I feel like this book has a lot of overlap with [a:Greg Egan|32699|Greg Egan|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66-e07624dc012f2cce49c7d9aa6500c6c0.jpg] (especially [b:Permutation City|156784|Permutation City|Greg Egan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1287341300s/156784.jpg|1270567] and [b:Schild's Ladder|156780|Schild's Ladder|Greg Egan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1172264160s/156780.jpg|151292]), and that generally I find Egan's take a little more interesting.

It was a smart, engaging read and full of pleasant little pop-culture references. Felt surprisingly short for 400+ pages. I definitely plan on reading some of his other books.