Cyberweb

The Sequel to Arachne: Carly Quester was once a professional telelinker with a powerful and corrupt mediation firm. Now she lives as an outlaw among the underground in San Francisco, wanted by the authorities for dubious crimes against Data Control. But with a new assignment from a mysterious sengine-and the help of a standalone AI entity, Pr. Spinner-Carly seeks the fast-track back into public telespace and the Prime Time.Her assignment, however, comes with sticky strings attached. For it has made Carly the target of a ruthless mercenary ultra, the love obsession of the young shaman of a savage urban tribe-and a possible pawn of the Silicon Supremacists plotting no less than the annihilation of humankind."Mason's endearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the most jaded SF fan." --BooklistLisa Mason has published eleven novels including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Strange Ladies: 7 Stories (a collection of previously published fiction), and forty stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright as a feature film to Universal Pictures.