Review: Some good writing, but a disappointing story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2012
There were a lot elements in this story that were very well written, with good details and a good use of language.  But the story itself is badly structured and would have benefited from editorial review.  The economic and social fall-out of the big disaster makes no sense, the "post-human" solution to the problem verges on irrational.  If Liu wanted to set up the dramatic tension between a flesh-and-blood person and his former love interest that now exists only in "cyberspace", he should have worked harder on creating a more plausible story to wrap around his situational premise.