I don't think I've ever read such a work that I felt nearly overwhelmed by. It was like waking up in the ocean with a storm about you. Where am I? What happened? What's going on? How do I survive? Are all thoughts which flitted across my head. I took deliberate time reading; any little bit that might help me understand the puzzle I didn't want whizzing by me.

Then like a storm-break I had a clutching of understanding. It wasn't big, it wasn't sure, but it was some scrabble to work from.

This was an intense book both in technology and philosophy. Foreign lands with a lot of exotic things going on. At least being human or human-like lent itself to some baseline to work from. In the end though I enjoyed the challenge and like any rolling stone I eagerly picked up speed until.....

The end.. and.. no followup till 2017.. I.. Am... CRUSHED.. hahah.

Great work, well written, and thoroughly mind bending.

Only other aside was this would make a great graphic novel.