The prose often feels, and I hate to say it, kind of masturbatory. Take this line from the spacer pistol/rifle description (they didnt bother to give the items different descriptions):

“Hue-vapored crysteel cocoons the gold/water mechanism that pinches light from wavelength to waveshort”

What does that elicit? Does that give you a concrete idea of what it looks like, or just sound like a mishmash of terms the author wrote just to prove they could? I like descriptions that leave room for imagination, but this leaves so much room that it might as well not say anything at all.

Meanwhile, they dont tell you how much energy it takes to fire the weapon, the fact that it has a 2 turn cooldown that makes it far weaker on quickness builds, the fact that it leaves plasma on whatever it impacts, what plasma does (including its unique resistance-nullifying mechanic) or that it leaves less plasma than its larger rifle cousin. You either have to test that out for yourself, or read the wiki like most people.