The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City and "A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech, and " said The New York Times . Now it continues down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the wildest cast of characters since Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld , both living and resurrected, down the river to possible salvation in New Orleans and beyond in a great SF epic.