What can I say - John Wright packs more ideas into a book than most folks pack into a series. He just drops them off as part of the plot like they're minor things to advance his overall story, but most would be complete book sin and of their own right (no pun intended).

I'm looking forward to the rest of this series - it has the scope and feel of the Phoenix Transcendent series, with players both drawn together and pushed apart by their very natures, and nothing less than the fate of the human race at stake.