Status Updates From You're Going to Mars!

Still enjoying the story but the chemistry pedant in me is a little peeved at the loose/incorrect usage of the words element and compound that seems to be heavy in the later chapters.

The "not-quite-cyberpunk" aesthetic is still working for me, though it's starting to feel familiar in ways that aren't particularly comfortable. Jane feels like an audience-insert trying to wake Paper up to the bizarre and awful realities of her world and I wish more of her message was getting through at this point.

So far the universe feels like a version of the cyberpunk America of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash seen through the lens of the main character's twee optimism.