Hey! Keep your filaments to yourself!

The Future We Left Behind, or 1.4, by Mike Lancaster.  I just found out that this book is a sequel. I had no idea! I was reading and reading, worrying to myself that I knew the end was coming and I my dread was growing. I didn't want it to end. Since I had not read the first book, I was dropped into a world like ours with obvious differences, but had no idea why everyone was treating the major changes as normal. The biggest being these filament things that let people network with each other - they kind of reminded me of the tails on the blue people from Avatar. And apparently, earth is just a giant living storage unit for some other race of beings or overlords unknown. We even get periodic updates. Sweet! Wait...hmm...can you see this being a bad thing? Yeah, me too. And that's why I couldn't stop reading. It was like watching mankind head towards an oncoming train and I couldn't decide if I should shout "Stop!" or just watch and see what happens. Great sci-fi mystery story here. I will be scurrying off to read Mr. Lancaster's first installment to see what gaps I am suffering with that are filled in there.  I give it 4.5 out of 5 robotic bees.