Cyberweb
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--she 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.

Cyberweb is the sequel to Arachne, Lisa Mason's cyberpunk classic.

"Powerful . . . Entertaining . . . Imaginative."
--People Magazine

"In humanity's daring to enter the cybernetic heaven (and hell) of telespace, Lisa Mason reveals the lineaments of all that is tragic and transcendent in our evolution. Once the journey into this vivid and terrifying future has begun, there is no returning until the infinite has been faced and the last word read."
--David Zindell, Author of Neverness

"Cybernetics, robotics, the aftermath of San Francisco's Big Quake II, urban tribalism--Lisa Mason combines them all with such deftness and grace, they form a living world. Mason spins an entertaining tale . . . She allows Carly's robotic allies a measure of personality and sophistication beyond the stock role of a chirping R2D2 or a blandly sinister Hal . . . Her characters and their world will stay with you long after you've finished this fine book."
--Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

"Lisa Mason stakes out, within the cyberpunk sub-genre, a territory all her own."
--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Mason's endearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the most jaded SF fan."
--Booklist

"Arachne is an impressive debut by a writer gifted with inventiveness, wit, and insight. The characters face choices well worth reading about. This is cyberpunk with a heart."
--Nancy Kress, Author of Brain Rose

"There is a refreshing amount of energy associated with Lisa Mason's writing. The good old values are there: fun, excitement, drama--but served up with new and original twists. Lisa Mason is definitely a writer to watch--and to read."
--Paul Preuss, Author of Venus Prime

"Lisa Mason must be counted among science fiction's most distinctive voices as we rush toward the new millennium."
--Ed Bryant
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Cyberweb
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--she 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.

Cyberweb is the sequel to Arachne, Lisa Mason's cyberpunk classic.

"Powerful . . . Entertaining . . . Imaginative."
--People Magazine

"In humanity's daring to enter the cybernetic heaven (and hell) of telespace, Lisa Mason reveals the lineaments of all that is tragic and transcendent in our evolution. Once the journey into this vivid and terrifying future has begun, there is no returning until the infinite has been faced and the last word read."
--David Zindell, Author of Neverness

"Cybernetics, robotics, the aftermath of San Francisco's Big Quake II, urban tribalism--Lisa Mason combines them all with such deftness and grace, they form a living world. Mason spins an entertaining tale . . . She allows Carly's robotic allies a measure of personality and sophistication beyond the stock role of a chirping R2D2 or a blandly sinister Hal . . . Her characters and their world will stay with you long after you've finished this fine book."
--Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

"Lisa Mason stakes out, within the cyberpunk sub-genre, a territory all her own."
--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Mason's endearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the most jaded SF fan."
--Booklist

"Arachne is an impressive debut by a writer gifted with inventiveness, wit, and insight. The characters face choices well worth reading about. This is cyberpunk with a heart."
--Nancy Kress, Author of Brain Rose

"There is a refreshing amount of energy associated with Lisa Mason's writing. The good old values are there: fun, excitement, drama--but served up with new and original twists. Lisa Mason is definitely a writer to watch--and to read."
--Paul Preuss, Author of Venus Prime

"Lisa Mason must be counted among science fiction's most distinctive voices as we rush toward the new millennium."
--Ed Bryant
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Overview

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--she 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.

Cyberweb is the sequel to Arachne, Lisa Mason's cyberpunk classic.

"Powerful . . . Entertaining . . . Imaginative."
--People Magazine

"In humanity's daring to enter the cybernetic heaven (and hell) of telespace, Lisa Mason reveals the lineaments of all that is tragic and transcendent in our evolution. Once the journey into this vivid and terrifying future has begun, there is no returning until the infinite has been faced and the last word read."
--David Zindell, Author of Neverness

"Cybernetics, robotics, the aftermath of San Francisco's Big Quake II, urban tribalism--Lisa Mason combines them all with such deftness and grace, they form a living world. Mason spins an entertaining tale . . . She allows Carly's robotic allies a measure of personality and sophistication beyond the stock role of a chirping R2D2 or a blandly sinister Hal . . . Her characters and their world will stay with you long after you've finished this fine book."
--Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

"Lisa Mason stakes out, within the cyberpunk sub-genre, a territory all her own."
--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Mason's endearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the most jaded SF fan."
--Booklist

"Arachne is an impressive debut by a writer gifted with inventiveness, wit, and insight. The characters face choices well worth reading about. This is cyberpunk with a heart."
--Nancy Kress, Author of Brain Rose

"There is a refreshing amount of energy associated with Lisa Mason's writing. The good old values are there: fun, excitement, drama--but served up with new and original twists. Lisa Mason is definitely a writer to watch--and to read."
--Paul Preuss, Author of Venus Prime

"Lisa Mason must be counted among science fiction's most distinctive voices as we rush toward the new millennium."
--Ed Bryant

Product Details

BN ID: 2940157527860
Publisher: Bast Books
Publication date: 01/31/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 262
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Lisa Mason is the author of eight novels, including Summer of Love, A Time Travel (Bantam), a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book and Philip K. Dick Award Finalist, The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (Bantam) a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book, a collection of previously published fiction, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories (Bast Books), and two dozen stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Mason’s Omni story, “Tomorrow’s Child,” sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios
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