It looks like Mr. Wilson has another winner on his hands. Axis looks like it will appeal very directly to the sort of people who vote in the Hugos. Goodness knows what the rest of the world will make of it though. Wilson does a good job of trying to put his heroes in the middle between the gung-ho technophiles and the paranoid technophobes. But I’m sure that in a Michael Crichton book Wilson’s heroes would be the bad guys and the creepy, murderous government agents would be the heroes. Maybe SF fans are still a breed apart.