While I thought the research study was cool, I wasn’t as huge of a fan of the competition to receive the grant of a lifetime plot. Not just that but a scientist of a science deemed more important and sciencey (chaos theory) ends up working with her and respecting her research and its methods. What originally was a “oh look at this silly thing people are doing right now” became “hey remember when West Coast coffee was first a thing?” I also really appreciated that a social science was featured at the core of a scifi book. It gave the book a good reason to notice and talk about the fads, and this held up well over time. This played in well to Sandra’s fad studies. I also found there was a real nostalgia quality to the book because it was first published in 1996 and set in its own time-period, so the whole thing just screamed 90s nostalgia to me. I feel like this doesn’t happen often enough in books. I loved seeing a book set in the mountain range area of the country (Colorado to be precise). This book has a similar sense of humor that definitely kept me entertained but the plot and backstory that ties it all together didn’t hit quite the same loved it nerve with me. This was given to me eons ago because of how much I love To Say Nothing of the Dog ( review) by Connie Willis. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep.
Bennet O’Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation.
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