Hilarious! The language is elevated and elegant, with the tone that makes the fantasy genre so fun to escape into. The opening line - love it. But this - grokking! - what a brilliant foray between the medieval feel of fantasy (goblins, and all) into the Tech age! - While others celebrated the copious networking of cybernetics as the key to survival, Gryllus feared that the Nanomancer, since he grokked technology far more than even the great Grand Master Technofreak, would somehow access to the network and use it to defeat them all.