I'm sure this was groundbreaking when it was published in the 1960s, but now it is aged. There are some good moments, but there's also moments in which female character's breasts get described needlessly. I found it hard to follow the main characters' thought process sometimes and I couldn't identify as much with the themes and philosophies as I hoped.

While this book is greatly influential for the scifi and cyberpunk genre, now over 50 years later - when the book actually takes place, and we can see that the real 2021 turned out quite differently than the writer envisioned - it has been outdone by its successors. In a way, that's a compliment in and of itself. But not one that will make me seek more of the writer's classics anytime soon.