[ItsOurTimeNow]

Also, if you're in the mood to barf, you can read salon.com
s slanted, uber-liberal review!:

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/index.html

[HairOfTheDog]

I read most of it. I can't tell you what it said!

It said stuff like this.

"Still, the entire notion of progress remained nebulous and ill-formed. Society's essential pyramidal shape remained intact till a full suite of elements and tools were finally in place for a true revolution -- one so fundamental, coming with such heady, empowering suddenness, that participants gave it a name filled with hubristic portent: Enlightenment."

Word Salad!