Rajat Goyal

I'd highly recommend the audiobook.
Rosamund Pike's performance is stellar!

The book certainly earns its name.
An unlikely combination of wit, satire, history, sorrow & realism.
Easily one of the finest books I've read.

It brilliantly superimposes the characters from Indian epics, over those involved in the Indian freedom struggle.
However, the true ingenuity of this book lies in the subtlety of this juxtaposition, making the characters look so obviously similar.

One of my best scifi reads till date. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's a fantastic collection of all things nerdy.

The book's littered with references to various scifi books, movies, tv-shows, and innumerable nerdy/geeky jokes.

The scientific concepts are equally exhilarating! Most of the tech seemed plausible, and it feels like a matured version of Doctor Who. Many of the solutions that the protagonist(s) come up with are ingenious and extremely fascinating.

There is quite literally a whole universe out there to explore, and this book really does it!

I'd strongly recommend this book to all scifi fans

I found the main plotline quite boring and somewhat predictable.
Nowhere near as enjoyable as the first three.
Spends way too much time on a single plotline instead of running multiple threads across the book.

Bunch of racist & imperialist crap painting Indians as savages.
The first book I abandoned after reading over 90%.