Which is likely due to the style choice as OSC mentions in his self-book-review.
Personally, having read it at an early age, I found the science part of the sci-fi to be very captivating and philosophy to be interesting.
From a sci-fi historiology perspective, you can see parts of the Bradbury style space-as-wild-west, while also some of the Gibson-esqe interconnected computing. I also found that the philosophy of the ansible to be related to some of Philip K Dick's warped sense of reality books.
Personally, having read it at an early age, I found the science part of the sci-fi to be very captivating and philosophy to be interesting.
From a sci-fi historiology perspective, you can see parts of the Bradbury style space-as-wild-west, while also some of the Gibson-esqe interconnected computing. I also found that the philosophy of the ansible to be related to some of Philip K Dick's warped sense of reality books.