A review by corbad
Gradisil by Adam Roberts

4.0

Like the retrofitted aircraft that lift the novel’s characters into the magnetosphere above the earth, the prose is a little slow to rise and the first of three distinct generational parts is the weakest of them - though it is by no means weak; its exposition fascinating and compelling. But once the novel really gets going, its expanse of concept and intimacy of perspective provoke and thrill in stunning diction (debatably cheapened, though I found the conceit charming, by the use of developing “newspeak”). Incredibly inventive both conceptually and in its use and voice of character.