The best thing about this book is the cover art. It reads like scraps scavenged from Neil Stephenson's garbage can circa 1991, but lacking Stephenson's wit, talent, and breadth of knowledge. The protagonist, Samuil Petrovitch, is a Marty Stu if I ever saw one. Not only is he a guff-talking, streetwise badass who doesn't care what the world thinks of him, he is also a handsome super genius who finds the solution to the Unified Field Theory before page 100 and he can do martial arts and shoot well, all at the age of 19. I have a hard time believing that this wasn't written by someone still in high school. I really enjoyed this book. In the vein of "The Electric Church," it was fun, fast-paced and had a couple of twists to it that I didn't expect. Post-apocalyptic, computerized hackery and future-proofing equations made it quite interesting.Will I read the next one? Dunno, I am afraid to be disappointed, but this one was good.One caveat, there are words in Russian that might require some research to understand; however, when used in context, one might understand what is being said.
What do You think about L'Equation De La Vie (2011)?
Read the trilogy back to back -- and am off to gobble up all I can about the Metrozone.
—madisonmaguire
Not bad, but there's a lot going on here.
—Soosa_Rina
