I do hope you sequel, because nikolai seems to have such great potential, and the setting as well. A place where america is like russia, robot and technology is bad, and a rebellious boy.. heh heh heh.

Interesting themes, and a lot of them just hinted at in his little discourse. It was a little hard to follow, but not by much. Going to be a hard push to make us invest in a protagonist who just killed a whole orphanage of kids.