Jupiter's army was counting on him to get through. Captain Aceret had boosted him into the ventilation system with instructions to proceed with full stealth. His shoulders shook as he fought with it.
He could feel a wet cough down in his lungs, itching, burning to get out. A light breeze brought the dust forward, where it lingered in a cloud that beguiled his headlamp, getting into his eyes, his nose, his throat, and clinging to the moist, teardrop-shaped surfaces of the sensory glands that shimmered on his cheeks. Lot wriggled toward the open vent, his slender, eight year old body crushing a path through the brittle foam of rotting insulation that coated the interior of the air duct. (Original Print Edition: Bantam Spectra, February 1997, ISBN# 9-1) In the confusion of battle Jupiter disappears, leaving behind his army, and his son, Lot, who is driven to uncover both the truth behind his father's promises, and the meaning of his heritage. But his plan is thwarted by the people of Silk, a city perched on a space elevator, 200 miles above the Well. Jupiter has promised his people an ecstatic communion and ever-lasting safety from the ravages of the Chenzeme, if only they will follow him to the planet's surface. The planet is rumored to seethe with alien plagues-the fallout of an ancient war fought on the nanotechnological scale.
He has brought his army of followers to the world of Deception Well. In Book 2, "Deception Well," Jupiter Apolinario is a charismatic leader with a mysterious past. All along the frontier, human settlements are under attack by the ancient and deadly robotic warships of a mysterious alien race known as the Chenzeme. But humanity was not the first species to travel between the stars. Over two millennia have passed since the events in Book 1, "The Bohr Maker." Advancing technology has allowed human civilization to expand across star systems, establishing settlements divided from one another by vast gulfs of space and time. The Nanotech Succession is a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.
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