ISBN 0-380-71844-8; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-43500 (US pbk)

"Neck-deep in 'The Great Work', computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days blissfully hacking away in cyberspace -- aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to bring truly intelligent robots into existence. Then an electronic ant gets in the machinery...then more ants...then millions and millions of the nasty viral pests, appearing out of nowhere to wreak havoc throughout the net. And suddenly Jerzy Rugby is Public Enemy #1, wanted by an angry government for sabotage, computer crime and treason -- a set-up patsy who must now get to the bottom of the virtually real insectile plague... even if it means pursuing Death himself to a cyberspacial backroom in the Antland of Fnoor." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1994]

"Madcap...screwball comedy cyberpunk." -- (in the Denver Post ).