Derivative, anti-science, and just not interesting. This book thinks itself transcendent in a way that only a book written by a white man can. It’s written in 3 perspectives - and while many books benefit from that mode of story telling, this one just made me lose any shred of investment by jumping around. And the Goodreads blurb comparing him to Jeff VanderMeer? Pft. Maybe the comparison to Neal Stephenson is justifiable, but only in the author’s clear thought that “if my secondary characters are all women, I’m a feminist!”. At least Neal’s prose is well written. Don’t waste your time on this book.