<b>From the front flap of the Tor first edition:</b> "The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars. In this bizarre, mysterious, and colorful future the solar system - and indeed human civilization - has been transformed by nanotech storms. At their height they swept across the planetary surfaces, changing everything in their path.
<p>Young Daric has been raised in an isolated enclave on Mars and is about to become aware of his destiny. Daric, who may be a clone of a fearsome interplanetary conqueror from the distant past, is discovered in his hidden gardens on Mars and forced to go on a quest across the solar system to discover his fate - which may or may not be reconquest."
