The storytelling style it's quite different than most other scifi I have run into. There is a lot of quickly summarizing of who people ate and relevant bits of background. It works, it's just different. write a few scenes are very visual and I couldn't help thinking that they would work great on the big screen. 
 It's defiantly a story with a political view point, which is fine. hmmm I think the stories I have read that were set in China where overtly political.