ISBN 0-445-20510-5 (US pbk)

"Second Alliance had Europe in a death grip, where war-shocked, starving people, led by cyber-enhanced fascists spewing computer readout propaganda, marched in lockstep toward annihilation. For the SA's hi-tech pogroms were just the opening riffs in a screaming song of genocide, the plan to terminate whole races, making room for subhuman slaves.

"New Resistance wasn't in place to fight back. In Europe, 'Hard Eyes' shrinking band of assassins were on the run. Under the Sahara, Steinfeld desperately tried to forge an alliance between Israeli warriors and Moslem fanatics. In England, all hope depended on a girl who knew nothing -- but whose brain knew too much.

"And neither the SA nor NR realized that an orbital psychotic was about to solve all Earth's problems by killing..." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1990]

"I recommend Eclipse Corona as a satisfying conclusion to the first two books of the trilogy; as a piece of excellent literary writing; as science fiction at its finest; a political statement against the corporate fascists and everything you would hope for in a John Shirley novel. In my opinion John Shirley is a vastly underrated writer whose work is not only brilliant, but entertaining as well, a tough combination to find these days". --Misha (in Science Fiction Eye , Issue 8, Winter 1991).

Hardcore cyberpunk.
Highly recommended.