This book did suffer from the feeling that it was less novella and more first act of a novel (the third act/novella is due out this year, and it may be worth waiting to see if the three are collected into one volume for a better reading experience). It also probably suffered from my deep love for Muhamad’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight which set me up, and I loved this less.
Annoyances aside, The Annual Migration of Clouds does an excellent job of sketching out a society of the frontier, dystopian type, and provides an unsettling exploration of self, thanks to a fungal parasite whose effects on the brain are poorly understood.
All in all, it was a good set-up. Just a little slight for a meal.