This book is an amazing ride! It engages readers' galaxy brain (a term it jubilantly uses) the whole way through. It starts out as a lushly optimistic, beautifully imagined far-future science fiction which you slowly (or not-so-slowly) discover is actually a dystopia where everyone is owned and some people's mental acuity/verbal skills is artificially limited. The rest of the book is a joyful, imaginative journey through solutions, implications and revolutions. I wanted way, WAY more of this.