David Scrimshaw rated Schismatrix: 5 stars

Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
In the far future, in a solar system colonized by a strange aggregation of human cultures, Abelard Lindsay, a rogue …
An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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