I read a really lazy, smug review of #ThePeripheral in the telegraph (online) that wanged on about how it was a "meta mess" (haha see what he did there?) I dunno, I'm really enjoying it. ##
There's something else here, though, that I can't quite express. Something about NTs deriding content that appeals to NDs. The sort of "How does something that big fly? It's rubbish" "They have anti gravity technology" " Ha, how could that even work?" stuff you hear. Well, it's science fiction. A genre I've followed for years. There are tropes us followers understand which allows us to fill in the blanks. Or in this case, maybe we read the book. Rant over, I'll now be having a coffee...