There was so much potential development in this story that wasn't taken advantage of. Though the technical aspects of the writing was quite good, I had so many questions:
- What do the male characters look like? Why are women only described if a male character has a sexual attraction to them?
- Is the I-ching/oracle a conscious diety/being?
- Does the Pacific States of America look like Tokyo now? Or does our version of Tokyo not exist because there wasn't an industrialization there because Japan won the war and didn't have a US occupation?

For the most part, this book is overrated.