notes
because i’m a sucker for pretty much all things KSR. this was a fun read, pulpy in all of its 1990s aspects with an interesting take on the fictional internet and wrist phones.
there’s an interesting meta discussion in here about the relationships between scientists/elites, politicians and the masses at large. some of it parallels the tensions and the lack of trust between the technocrats/scientists in our bureaucracy and society at large with a heaping helping of political messiness.
KSR fetishes the geography and the geology of antarctica pretty brilliantly and i found myself googling a ton of the references in here to be delighted by something that’s massive in scale and, presciently, under duress from climate change.