" . . . astonishing both in range and quality. Dave Smeds conjures a future where regeneration and eternal youth are made possible through nanotechnology; his story tells what happens to a dysfunctional mother and a daughter in a world where suicide is a hobby and murder a misdemeanor."
--Publishers Weekly

". . . an orgy of bloodletting that makes Vietnam seem like a church picnic--or would, had Mr. Smeds not skillfully established symbolic connections . . . "
--David Bradley, The New York Times Book Review