I wonder why science fiction hasn't used the multimedia form more? (This is science fiction, too, incidentally.) Peter Watts and Greg Egan do, a little, in conjunction with their books. But I think it could be done more, say, by putting future ads on YouTube -- I just saw a computer game do this with a rather good Top Gear pastiche -- or animated planetary dynamics on a website.

I particularly liked the little musical recaps at the end of each chapter, using animated maps and the like -- I enjoy Bois' eclectic musical taste.

Finally, this is a sports story (among other things) that isn't a sausage fest, and it's written so the reader doesn't have to know very much about the sport at all, although I don't think Bois' solution is something that could be duplicated in general.