On the Steel Breeze resolves its central narratives through lengthy dialogues and redundant expositions that are punctuated with action set pieces and not much else. While there is plenty of world to explore and morally suspect tech to engage with, the author is mostly concerned with human concepts of fragmented selves, forgiveness, etc in a post-cloud world. Somehow, collective humanism ends up coming off a little shallow. Not a bad read all in all, still better than lots, but a bit toothless compared to the Revelation Space series.