A young woman undergoing massive personality reconstruction in a California of the future struggles to adapt to the conflicting aims of the secular theocracy in which her body lives and the realms of cyberspace where she, as an interfacer without peer, prefers to dwell. Taking a gigantic leap beyond cyberpunk, Gawron's latest novel tackles nothing less than the definitions of intelligence and personhood. Exhilarating in form, sobering in content, this title belongs in most sf collections.

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