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Reduced to scavenging for subsistence scraps among the trash people of San Francisco, Carly Nolan may have finally found her re-entry into the fast lane. Together with her onetime probe therapist Pr. Spinner - an aging and suspicious standalone A.I. entity with rusty, ill-defined housing - the disgraced linker is summoned back into public telespace by a tri-headed mainframe icon called Cognatus. And Cognatus has an offer Carly Nolan dares not refuse: a job, a future...and absolution. But there are sticky strings ...
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Reduced to scavenging for subsistence scraps among the trash people of San Francisco, Carly Nolan may have finally found her re-entry into the fast lane. Together with her onetime probe therapist Pr. Spinner - an aging and suspicious standalone A.I. entity with rusty, ill-defined housing - the disgraced linker is summoned back into public telespace by a tri-headed mainframe icon called Cognatus. And Cognatus has an offer Carly Nolan dares not refuse: a job, a future...and absolution. But there are sticky strings attached. Carly's new assignment - a telespacial hunt for unconnected human archetypes - has aroused some dangerous interest back in the real world. A ruthless mercenary Ultra fembot with fluid loyalties is now dogging her trail. The young shaman of a savage urban tribe has become obsessed with the beautiful "genny woman" who has sacrificed her soul to the "Glass Land." And worst of all, Carly herself may be no more than an unsuspecting pawn of the Silicon Supremacists - a renegade cabal of A.I. revolutionaries planning no less than the total destruction of humankind.

Carly Nolan was once a telelinker with a corrupt legal firm. Now she lives an outlaw life at the bottom of the human garbage heap--a penniless recovering cram addict wanted by the authorities for crimes against the Data Control bureaucracy. But with a new job--and the help of standalone A.I. entity named Pr. Spinner--she hopes to find the track back into public telespace.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Set in the same universe as Mason's previous Arachne, this chronicle of San Francisco attorney Carly Nolan-who loses her position because of an anomaly in her ``telespace'' link, known as an ``arachne'' for its spiderlike appearance-and her robotic companions Saint Download and Pr. Spinner fails on several levels. One of these is its prose: ``Two women, astonishing and beautiful, the way the water of the Bay was beautiful when poison slicked its surface in green and blue swirls and astonished him with sudden sickness at its taste.'' More perilously, Mason seems awed by the gadgetry she presents, more so than readers are likely to be. Finally, she posits a romanticized band of ``aborigines,'' led by Ouija, who seem little more than Luddites. (Says Ouija, of his people's life: ``We hunt, we feed, we fuck, we are free.'') Mason allows her sympathies, not her characters, to move the story line, which culminates in a contrived tearjerker ending. (Feb.)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780380799176
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 7/28/1998
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 262
  • Product dimensions: 5.24 (w) x 7.99 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Meet the Author

Lisa Mason
Host and writer Lisa Mason was honored with an EMMY award for her PBS documentary "Faces of Aids". Lisa was also given the Society of Professional Journalism Award for her PBS documentary "When Children Kill". Lisa joined QVC as televsion host in 1995 where she remained for 16 years. Lisa is also an accomplished musician and singer.
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