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Liked the characterization, too. The hero is lovable, a sort of caricature of pop-culture befrazzlement incarnated in a way that reminds me of many of my friends, and infused with just a breath of whimsical fantasy over a dollop of personal tragedy. That's a terrible description, but I really liked her.
It's also evident that Gibson wrote quickly; 9/11 factors significantly into the story, and the thanks-everyone afterword is dated August 2002. I found it interesting that the chapter in which the main character recalls that day's events is titled "Singularity", a word that doesn't appear in the text itself. I don't think that he was identifying 9/11 as Vinge's Technological Singularity, even though that was certainly what he was referring to. But he's right, I think, to use the word. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but it's true: my attitude towards things produced before 2002 often takes a dismissive tone, despite myself, because here is something made for a different world than mine.