Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh

[samvara]

I had trouble putting it down and keep sneaking off to read. Started slow, built, developed, then rushed to an ending.

Oh love love love.

Sequel to Hammerfall and just up my alley. Concord Station is the one place where different humans and aliens co-exist; but the balance is delicate; they hover together over a proscribed world scarred by vicious nanotechnology waiting to see if it can be redeemed.