Infinite Detail

A Novel

384 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2019 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-71860-2
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4 stars (5 reviews)

2 editions

Triumphant

5 stars

A book about what happens when the Internet goes away, yes, but there’s something much more than that: the exploration of humanity as content between advertising, the questions about what happens next post-revolution, the overlapping mysticism and open-source pragmatism, the breathing, beating characters, the class politics woven throughout. I loved every glowing, gripping word.

Review of 'Infinite Detail' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I wanted to give this 4 stars but in the end the book's negative points dragged it down to a 3. It starts slow and is redeeemed by a cracking ending. It really started to pick up with a trenchant point about revolution with no plan for what happens after. However, before you get there you have to wade through some tired tropes for this type of novel. For example, the only viable urban music comes from the black community etc etc. The author knows his tech and his projections of where it may take us were thought provoking. That being said, it is a three star so cannot recommend.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, dystopian