"The book is a taut thriller, veering as it does between the real and the virtual, propelled by a central mystery . . . that bears some similarity to both C.S. Lewis's sci-fi apologetic Out of the Silent Planet and Tad Williams's Otherland series. Stanton gets a lot of things right with this book. It's spiritually thoughtful without being pedantic. It moves along very well. He has a great ear for dialogue."