Ingenious, inventive sci-fi that I've never read the likes of before. Tchaikovsky continues to delight. The plot did stall out a bit in the middle, but thankfully picked right back up again. One thing I'm not entirely happy about is the handling of the trans woman character. Nothing egregious but at times I felt the need to represent people being weird or bigoted about her went too far. Though I did find the character of Rove a great addition and his bullshit alone would not have bothered me, I think.