PositiveLibrary JournalAs in Chen\'s short stories, this work is stylistically gritty and spare, emphasizing the harsh realities of Silicon Isle and the devastating burdens developing areas of the world (and marginalized people) suffer as the result of technology they cannot themselves enjoy ... Already an award winner in China, this debut is likely to draw comparisons to Cixin Liu\'s The Three Body Problem and Kim Stanley Robinson\'s New York 2140 and is a provocative addition to the growing corpus of Chinese speculative fiction and near-future and realist sf as a whole.
