Status Updates From Город перестановок

I'm getting a little impatient. It took 100 pages for Durham to hire Maria, which is mentioned on the back cover. Maybe I should have read the original short story.

Great prologue. But that just means, we have to wait after that. Of course there's some tech heavy sections. This has a good rep on a scifi discord (Words in Time YouTuber). Wish me luck. It's not too long.

exposition through dialogue not handled very deftly, especially when we already have interludes from the narrator serving the same purpose. think ‘oh yeah well what about [begin explanation of event]’ ‘yes i remember [event]. wasn’t there [further description of event]?’ ‘exactly. that’s why [more event description both parties should know based on their grasp on reality]’

just introduced a german character then the reader gave him a nasal slavic accent