This is a truly mind-blowing novel (Macleod’s debut and the first in the “Fall Revolution” cycle). How mind-blowing? Here’s a snippet from Publisher’s Weekly: “Marxist security mercenary Moh Kohn and computer expert Janis Taine, later joined by ‘femininist’ terrorist Catherin Duvalier and Jordan Brown, a teenage refugee from an evangelical commune, seek to defeat a sinister artificial intelligence that threatens to act as a doomsday machine. With a host of peculiar friends and enemies and just as many action scenes in odd places (try a gay ghetto whose militia is known as the Rough Traders), this quartet will keep readers interested if occasionally confused right through the last battle against the Hanoverians (the absentee royal family) and the Men in Black (the U.S./U.N. technology police, or Stasis). The political scenario needs (and receives) a good deal of background explanation, allowing American readers in particular to better appreciate such curious political entities as the Space and Freedom Party and the Felix Dzerzhinsky Workers’ Defense Collective.” Yeah … that mind-blowing.