Raven Stratagem is such a hard book to talk about because Lee's appeal as an author is, I think, inversely proportionate to how much you need to visualize the weird tech. The point isn’t the tech, the point is the people. And Lee's gift is noticing the little things and bringing characters to life through minor details: Mikodez and sweets, Zehoun and their cats, and so on down the line. It’s through these small pieces that Lee builds up the lived experience of his world and makes it, for all its bizarreness, feel very real.
And I loved Zeller's reading of the book, her voice work is stellar!