Doctorow and Stross have created the 21st century successor to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. Millions of posthumans have migrated off-planet to upload their consciousness into the Cloud, abandoning their meatbodies and playing mind games with their meatheaded cousins who stayed behind by spamming Earth's networks with disruptive technologies just for the fun of watching us squirm.
A highminded species would ignore these provocations but whoever said we as a species are all that highminded? No, there's a chump born every minute as they say, and this particular chump, a technophobic Welsh person named Huw, has been assigned the unenviable task of defending all humanity's continued right to exist before the Galactic Federation.
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