Set in a future where refugees have become such a problem they’ve made a special planet for them. Its a nicely balanced book, with nanotech available but only a few things are computationally powerful enough to deal with the complexities of it, meaning much of the setting is relatively lowtech against a background of high potential.
In many ways its like the Straylight run, but in a world of more, and better thought out, contradictions. A world where the Catholic Church is a powerful commercial force and Mexico is the economic centre of the world.
Slower going that Gibson, but worth the extra time.
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