Well. That was...gruesome. It probably didn't help that the
first attempt I made to listen to it was while eating lunch. Yeah, that didn't last long. I listened to it again while driving home from work. I'm fairly sure it wasn't any less gruesome, merely less disgusting.
[Hmmm. Note to self: Pseudopod as weight-loss scheme.]
I like the Idea embedded in this story, but I found it extremely hard to follow as audio. I think maybe it was all the names combined with the speed with which Alasdair read it. I'd like to see it in print so I could read it at my own pace to see if I get more than a rudimentary understanding of what was going on.
That being said, it reminded me a bit of Greg Bear's
Blood Music, with maybe a soupçon of
Strength of Stones added for flavor.
You know, and zombies. Lots and lots of oozing zombies.