The development of Nanotechnology is perfectly continued from Snow Crash to this book, offering an mind-blowing variety of possibilities to the reader.
Films have borrowed from his ideas, e.g. the newspapers people read in the Movie 'Minorty Report' are clearly derived from Stephenson's nano-paper what left me kind of ecstatic when watching.

Unfortunately this book completely lacks the breathtaking speed one experienced in SnowCrash. The Focus is an entirely different one, this books spans over decades of years with partly unbearable lengths. I forced myself to read it to the end but then I never understood it.

Perhaps I'm too dumb, who knows?
Probably I'm too action-oriented (but then, why do I like The Cider House Rules?)

I will release this book, hoping it will find a more understanding reader and make him/her happier than me.

Released on Thursday, January 08, 2004 at U4 Richtung Bockenheimer Warte in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Germany.