John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline

Pulled this off my shelf to help while away the night-time hours, too late to do anything more 'productive' but still too early to sleep, my sleeping patterns being what they current are (ie, a wreck). The novel has some interesting ideas and pulls together neatly, but still feels somehow slight (which may be unfair to Varley, given that the book does seem very economical in its language and structure, but that's how I respond to it nonetheless), which is probably why it's never left much of an impression on previous readings - nor on this one, though it was slightly better than I recalled it as being. Then again, I've never really been one for sci-fi.