‘ve never read much of Greg Bear’s work. Just didn’t spin out that way (and I doubt he’s read any of mine, so we’re even, I guess). Picked up Slant from the used bookstore right before it folded. My final purchase.

So in the book, we at the midpoint of our century. You can see echoes of our times in this one – some Global Warming issues, breakaway states (pretty much up in Militia country). AI is coming along, with one of the characters inorganic. Nanotech and general tech have improved to the point where you can change your body easily. But deep in Green Idaho (one of those breakaways) a curious structure is rising, some sort of enclave or shelter or corpse-sicle facility, ominous and gigantic, currently holding sales pitches for the absolute in timeshares. Only the 1% may apply.

And moving about in the town, waiting for others to arrive, a man with an undisclosed military background scouts about, making his plans.

This is one of those books where you begin with a number of dispersed characters, and it’s a joy to see them slowly storyline together.

I’ll say this – the things that Greg Bear makes his nanobots do is frightening. Imagine a nanobot sprayer that coats its targets, melting them down and slowly building their ruin into other things, weapons and such. Grisly.

Anyway, a great book that I was glad I could find. Interesting and thoughtful.

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