There was a some fairly tenuous linking to get Cormac out to where most of the action takes place, a random non-oxygen world controlled by a religious sect, with slaves living on adapted technology to survive while they struggle to produce enough goods for the church. Instead of some vast being this is a distributed threadlike thing thought to be extinct, but a bio-technologist has been exploring some options on a world not quite within the borders of the Earth's AI controlled Polity. Having released the maker and dealt sort of honourably with the dragon, Cormac is the ETC's goto person whenever their might be aliens around - we get a another new one in this book the Jain. Cormac has remained unlinked which kind of worked as an excuse for the first book, but isn't so relevant here. We keep jumping from character to character with little clear marking which doesn't help. Meh, kind of ok, but there's little character engagement and that makes it hard to become engrossed.
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