@cstross Maybe, but hard to say without knowing the GE universe first.
(I am right in that GE is the first in a series, yes? I tried searching for info about it, but got endless pages of bookshops wanting to sell me a copy, or review sites wanting to tell/ask me how good it is. I tried clicking on a couple to see if anything useful was on the page, but they all came with full-page pop-overs asking blah blah blah... Argh, 2020s internets is the absolute worst!)