I read this back in high school and had forgotten almost all of it. It's kind of a post-modern space opera, with a quest/race for a rare substance that can be most easily found in a sun going nova, and a power struggle between two rich families. It was fairly entertaining but not great. The characters are pretty flat, although I think he meant them to be more symbolic than naturalistic, and he wants to drag in a lot of stuff. One character is taking notes for the ancient art form of the novel, and his notes are ideas about dissolution of shared culture etc. and we get to read them. There are description of Tarot cards and a whole reading gets done. There are some fake tech descriptions, which is something I can't stand. Technical jargon explanations of things that the author just made up anyway? No! In the end it ended abruptly, with a possible twist on the story (see spoiler below), but possibly not since it's not explicitly said.
SPOILER:
at the end, it seems we may be reading the novelist's novel
SPOILER:
at the end, it seems we may be reading the novelist's novel
the hands that guide me are invisible