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A great overview of the history of the computer and the Internet. There are other books that cover some of this history in more detail and accuracy, but none as accessible to the uninitiated. The book starts with Lady Lovelace and ends with Ginni Romett's leading IBM into a future of human and computer symbiosis with programs like Watson.

So far the best in the series. I specifically like the different POVs this time and how the author(s) have used their strengths to heighten the impact the story has.

The second book in the series extends the world and characters of the first book in the series. In addition to flushing out some of the existing characters, the book introduces several new characters that would have been fun to see in the first novel.

Finally, I am wondering if the meta-themes of from the first book (The role Eros and Venus play in coordination with two of the characters fulfilling their need for a meaningful relationship) are purposefully being drawn through another theme from this book of all the new characters having either androgynous names or having their names be sexually opposing. If this is purposeful, then my regards for the authors is increased even more.

It's good to see Gibson doing work set in the future. His past couple of books were not placed in a future time. I am hoping this book turns into a short series. There are so many unanswered question.

Overall it takes a bit to get up to speed and understand the setting, but once done, it's a good murder mystery.