The Windup Girl

Full of amazing ideas. There's worldbuilding here to sustain a dozen novels, and I'd like to see more. Downsides:

1. not enough megadonts


2. the reader is really thrown into the deep end, hit with unfamiliar technology, world history, and political machinations. It's tough going at the beginning


3. a lot of POV characters for such a short book, and not all of them are interesting (or likable)