![]() ![]() Where the story's headed becomes transparent too early: the insight into the role of bellwethers in fomenting breakthroughs is not compelling. ![]() She's crucial to the story, so Sandy puts up with her in a way that's wimpy, annoying and unbelievable. Flip, an echo of Robert Browning's Pippa, is an avatar of chaos whose passing alters lives. Chaos leads to a higher level of organization-breakthroughs in Sandy and Bennett's research, wealth and requited love. As in the past, Willis moves her plot along through mix-ups and near-misses, a device that neatly embodies her theme of chaos. Plagued by Flip, an airhead mail girl, she joins her research to that of Bennett O'Reilly, a chaos theorist studying information diffusion. ![]() In the very near future, sociologist/statistician Sandy Foster is researching the source of fads at a Dilbert-like corporation, Hi-Tek. In Willis's (Doomsday) fifth solo novel, her practiced screwball style yields a clever story which, while imperfect, is a sheer pleasure to read. ![]()
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