[morelisp]

Through The Valley of the Nest of Spiders far eclipses (the forever unfinished) Stars in My Pocket, but won’t get the same attention for obvious reasons.

It is also a lot more relevant to the article, given the protagonists’ eschewal of communication technology. With similar artistic goals, I think.

[zabzonk]

But not an SF book? And I find everything after and including "The Mad Man" pretty unreadable.

[morelisp]

It spans an alternate history beginning in 2007 to numerous predicted future events through 2080ish; if the sf community doesn't want it the sf community is poorer for it.