There's a space elevator, and a group that believes in the Gaia concept, and an underclass living in slum cities, a female member of whom gets hold of an advanced technology and becomes a sort of messiah, and politics around the Indian Ocean. This sense of location is reinforced by the repressive government and strict punishment system. But the bug is proscribed technology, breaking the chain of life by not just modifying an existing genotype, but by creating a new one. So Phousita is the object of pursuit of the government, as well as those who were releasing the bug in the first place. I know you need these characters, but it seems a pity to me that Nagata spent so much time on them at the expense of her original character.
Race is a con game.
Nagata takes the current discussion of this subject and uses it for a fairly straightforward future thriller sort of novel. Some may find this intriguing, but I found it unconvincing and difficult to follow. The main plot is full of convenient characters and familiar concepts. For example, one powerful member of the main character's family is opposed to cryogenics, giving Nagata a ready-made conflict. Nanotechnology is the solution to the problems of thawing people out, as it seems to be to every problem these days, and so on.