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The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
3.0

It was pretty okay. Fairly interesting ideas around the nanotech and the role of faith in society. Also, we started with some rather nice prose, but I don't recall being struck by anything further on.
I think the story was marred by having 6 characters, some of whom left me completely flat. I didn't skip over any of the subplots, but found myself eagerly waiting to get back to the "good ones". It just didn't seem like enough of a benefit to justify the effort required to track everyone...