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ISBN 0-575-05022-5 (UK trade pbk)
novel, science fiction, detective, nanotechnology, voodoo, artificial intelligence
Los Angeles 2048. Followed by a sequel: Slant (1997).
"Mary Chow is an investigator, a black nemesis on the trail of the slaughterer of eight young wealthy citizens.
"Such a crime could only be carried out by an 'untherapied' -- someone who has chosen to live outside the unblemished mental state available to society's 'therapied'. To be untherapied at the turning of the binary millennium is practically a crime in itself.
"The hunt for an answer to the atrocity leads to the voodoo-soaked world of Hispaniola, and beyond, into the Country of the Mind of the murderer himself. Even there much can be hidden, and deadly traps laid for the unwary.
"Meanwhile, above the city, an artificial intelligence struggles to be 'born'...
"A story of guilt, self-awareness, creativity and redemption from the author of Blood Music , Eon , and Eternity ." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1991]
"Nightmarish and goosebump-raising. An impressively dense book whose imagined world exists in the peripheral vision as well as at the centre of focus." -- (in Locus ).
"A compelling multi-faceted novel; almost every page has some freshly thought-provoking ideas." -- (in Time Out ).
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