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From then on, the plot slowly lifts the veil of what is wrong with this future society, putting our main character under the option of sitting still and doing nothing, or trying to prevent a new colapse of civilization.
Nanotech abounds, and in the first few hundred pages the reader can be thrown slightly off by the amount of terms "invented" by Modesit to depict this far-off future, after we get used to it though, the story flows quite smoothly.
The storytelling alternates scenes between the main character's present and past, giving the reader a greater insight into him, not only from where he came, or what he has done, but also from his own thoughts and interpretations of the human nature.
A good read.
This book also suffers from one of Modesitt's more irritating writing strategies - writing the story from two different time points. Normally (I suppose) there could be (arguably) some point to this - but in the current novel I could not only find little rational for this style - but also found it difficult to discriminate which chapters were 'now' and which chapters were 'then'.
Two of the main features of the story - nanotechnology and puzzle solving have been covered much better by other authors - in fact have been done much better by modessit.
For nano-technology see "the parafaith war" or "gravity dreams" for problem solving any of the Ecolitan novels would be preferable. Modessit is usually a good author with only the occasional 'dud' (such as adiamante) and so is usually a 'safe bet' for the reader; but I really wouldn't recommend this one!
Apart from that it was delivered before the estimated date and in great condition.
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