As it's the first, I wasn't expecting it to be. He was just getting his foot in the door of this universe, so it wasn't going to be perfect. The idea of machine intelligences being vastly smarter than humans and treated as equal members of society was an intriguing one though, and was enough to get me into the second book.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 22:51,
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It really didn't help that I'd read POG, UOW and Excession first, so after those CP came across as a bit pedestrian and "what was the point". But yes, still a strong foundation for what was to come.
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