ISBN 0-380-78431-9 (US pbk, 1996)

"Smart machines fulfill your every need...

"00000000: On the world of Agorima, pleasure-seekers party in a sex-soaked paradise until a pathological system cracker infiltrates the billion-node life-support network.

"...You are biologically immortal...

"01001110: Protektor Tom McCray has only a few hours to find a smart virus that can copy itself into any transit vehicle, domestic robot, or food dispensal.

"...You never need to work...

"11011010: Burning debris rains from the sky, and vacationers run screaming into sudden darkness.

"...And you never need to worry.

"1111111: As all the systems go down, a world of pleasure becomes a jungle of low-tech anarchy." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1996]