A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of <i>Pygmalion</i>
Guardian
A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest
Time Out
The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee
Village Voice
A new era in science fiction. People will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality
- Bruce Sterling,
Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary
USA Today