I must confess that I've put off reading this because of it being science fiction. I will never let that happen again! This was fabulous!

The two of you did such fine work of building a universe of the future, and its flaws, and making it believeable. Well done!

This is novel quality! In a novel, though, I would expect more about Adam and Neil's programmers, and life from Monte's loved one's POV. Will that be in the published version?? ;D. If you ever post more to this, I won't wait so long to read it!

Excellant story!