Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've heard people call this book "plausible." That's the last way I'd describe it. The plot is razor-thin. Character development is non-existent -- hell, Tom and Jerry display deeper, more nuanced, more human personalities than this book's characters. Most of the situations described make absolutely no sense -- particularly with respect to the the idiotic Grrl-power "insurgent". (Who can kill a team of muscle-bound Marines with a single 1.5" ceramic knife, and go on a murder spree, while seemingly evading all forms of surveillance and detection.) ...Long story short: This book treats its readers like idiots. Something which is hammered home with the endless footnotes that are completely unnecessary. (Peter Watts does it right; these guys do it very wrong indeed.) For a much better book on the same topic, see Twilight's Last Gleaming by John Michael Greer.