Exhalation

If Goodreads allowed it, I'd rate this as like a 3.8/5 stars.

The ideas were really fascinating and quite deeply thought out, and will be stuck in my mind for a long time, like the best episodes of Black Mirror. Chiang is really good at imagining how people would interact with speculative technologies in an networked society. However, a few of the stories were much longer than necessary, and not well paced. Characters generally felt pretty flat, as if they were present just to support the story's central conceit.