ISBN 0-670-84900-6 (UK hbk)

"This is a book about cops, wild teenage whiz-kids, lawyers, hairy-eyed anarchists, industrial technicians, hippies, high-tech millionaires, game hobbyists, computer security experts, Secret Service agents, grifters and thieves.

"This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines -- in 'cyberspace'.

"People have worked on this 'frontier' for generations now. Some people have become rich and famous from their efforts there. Some have just played in it, as hobbyists. Others soberly have pondered it, written about it, regulated it, negotiated over it in international forums, and sued one another about it in gigantic, epic court battles that lasted for years. And almost since the beginning, some people have committed crimes in this place.

"This is the story of the people of cyberspace." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1993]

"Sterling's journalistic report of the first large-scale police crackdown on hackers by the U.S. government. And the subsequent mess.

"Bruce Sterling has kindly made his book freely available on the Internet [link below]." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

For a follow-up to this story, check:

• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold
  (non-fiction... cyber society, online living)

  Also read:
  

• Wired
  (online version of this magazine... for up-to-the-minute information)

Hackers, Viruses, & CyberCrime
(Anachron Library entry... booklist, definition, plus link to other websites)

Bruce Sterling's presence on the WELL cyberpunk site:
gopher://nkosi.well.sf.ca.us:70/11/cyberpunk

And for a resource guide to Sterling's work and related items on the net:
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/RDA/VirtualCity/Sterling/index.html

To reach Bruce Sterling himself:

e-mail:
bruces@well.sf.ca.us