By Karl Schroeder, who wrote Ventus[1] and Permanence[2]. (One of my favorite sci-fi authors!) I always thought this reviewer quote on the front of Ventus was

By Karl Schroeder, who wrote Ventus[1] and Permanence[2]. (One of my favorite sci-fi authors!) I always thought this reviewer quote on the front of Ventus was pretty funny: > “Dramatically effective and a milestone in science fiction about nanotech and fine-grained distributed systems.” – Vernor Vinge 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus_(novel) 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanence_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanence_(novel)