Fully agree with "davideverard2". The story has some unnecessary lengths, interrupted by really great highlights. This is Mainly the description of what happens with a society refusing technology suddenly being Confronted with altering nano-technology. This is where the story gets nearly fantastic: Humans are upgraded with cyborg technologies, strange zombies come up, speaking animals / animal-human crossovers come into existence. My favorite: the rabbit-human. During this part of the narrative stream, the novel gets brilliant - unfortunately, this is only a part of the book. Still, it is a good science fiction novel.