A whodunit murder case spawns a fictional but oh-so-real mashup of sequential but maybe not strictly connected futures. Funny details, bleak but always stylish, two immediate layers of futures to behold, infinite more to imagine as steps taken between our present and those far downstream. An

unexpectedly all-round happy ending

, more than any other WG work I've read. Terse & condensed dialog, the point of contact between dialects from different eras conveying part of the story itself.