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Scott's talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp. Cerise and Trouble are lesbian lovers who plug into computer networks to steal industrial secrets to sell on the gray market. Both women have been wired with the newest technology, a "brainworm" that enables them to receive sensations when they're plugged in--a development despised by the older, mostly male heterosexual "netwalkers." When Congress passes the Evans-Tindale bill to outlaw the brainworm, life on the net threatens to become more dangerous. Trouble predicts these changes and goes legit. Three years later, Cerise is working for an industrial corporation when someone begins impersonating Trouble on the nets, stealing secrets and leaving viruses behind. To save her own job and to clear her ex-lover's name, Cerise must team up with Trouble again. Their many adventures include a virtual-reality equivalent of a high-noon shootout, but loose plotting weakens the tension surrounding most of their escapades, as problems unexpectedly resolve or are simply dropped. Scott ( Dreamships ; Burning Bright ) seems more interested in using her command of the genre to explore such subjects as the importance of friendship, the strength and intelligence of women, lesbian eroticism and the workings of community.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The passage of restrictive laws governing access to the ever-growing international computer network drives professional "netwalkers" like India Carless (a.k.a. Trouble) and her lover, Cerise, out of the shadows and into the glaring lights of legitimate enterprise-until their illicit pasts emerge to haunt them. The author of Burning Bright (LJ 4/15/93) captures the spirit of new technology in a novel set partly in the next century and partly in the virtual future that is becoming today's reality. Scott's talent as a storyteller continues to grow, as evidenced by her sizzling prose and carefully balanced plotting. A priority purchase for most sf collections.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Scott's talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp. Cerise and Trouble are lesbian lovers who plug into computer networks to steal industrial secrets to sell on the gray market. Both women have been wired with the newest technology, a "brainworm" that enables them to receive sensations when they're plugged in--a development despised by the older, mostly male heterosexual "netwalkers." When Congress passes the Evans-Tindale bill to outlaw the brainworm, life on the net threatens to become more dangerous. Trouble predicts these changes and goes legit. Three years later, Cerise is working for an industrial corporation when someone begins impersonating Trouble on the nets, stealing secrets and leaving viruses behind. To save her own job and to clear her ex-lover's name, Cerise must team up with Trouble again. Their many adventures include a virtual-reality equivalent of a high-noon shootout, but loose plotting weakens the tension surrounding most of their escapades, as problems unexpectedly resolve or are simply dropped. Scott ( Dreamships ; Burning Bright ) seems more interested in using her command of the genre to explore such subjects as the importance of friendship, the strength and intelligence of women, lesbian eroticism and the workings of community.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The passage of restrictive laws governing access to the ever-growing international computer network drives professional "netwalkers" like India Carless (a.k.a. Trouble) and her lover, Cerise, out of the shadows and into the glaring lights of legitimate enterprise-until their illicit pasts emerge to haunt them. The author of Burning Bright (LJ 4/15/93) captures the spirit of new technology in a novel set partly in the next century and partly in the virtual future that is becoming today's reality. Scott's talent as a storyteller continues to grow, as evidenced by her sizzling prose and carefully balanced plotting. A priority purchase for most sf collections.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward James on 4 pages
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- Science Fiction Culture by Camille Bacon-Smith on page 253, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- All One Universe by Poul Anderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace by Rachel C. Lee on page 288, and page 303
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