The Armies of Memory, with spoilers

Okay, well, first things first: I was mainly right in my Merchants of Souls comments. Not completely, of course, but mainly. I was certainly right that there was a posthuman civilization out there, even if I was wrong about where it was. I was right about some of the genetic engineering business being conspicuously absent, although that one got more papered over than addressed head-on. (There's still the question of why there isn't a full-out extropian movement going on on the fringes, but that's not nearly as glaring.)

Strongly, strongly hope that the marketing people are wrong and A Far Cry will still eventually exist. Because the story isn't over.

Barnes' other main sequence of books is, one notes, in close to the same position: there's a big, big battle just over the horizon in which the white hats are making a last stand of unknown but not-all-that-good odds. It will be interesting, eventually, to see how he does the actual climactic conclusion thing. So far, though, no sign of what he has coming next, whether it'll be A Far Cry, more Meme Wars, or something else entirely. (Igitatur!?) No sign at any of the usual suspects right now...