Bruce Sterling

  • ISLANDS IN THE NET
hbk: Arbor House, (New York) US, July 1988
pbk: Morrow, US, 1988,,, Legend, (London) UK, 1989

ISBN 0-87795-952-8 (US hbk),,, 0-09-955200-0 (UK pbk)

novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, future, utopia

Near future.


"2023. Laura Webster lives happily with her husband and child in a world where nuclear weapons, environmental crises and national politics are things of the past. Instead there is the Net, a global communications system that helps make this possible.

"But outside the Net there are dangerous communities which steal and sell technology and information. And when data pirates invade Laura's life, her once-safe world explodes in her face." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1989]


"A rare, positive vision of the future by a cyberpunk author." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).




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Of Related Interest

  • CyberCulture
  • Cyberpunk
  • Future
  • Generation-X
  • Hackers, Viruses, & CyberCrime
  • Postmodern
  • Science Fiction
  • Slipstream
  • Utopia
  • Virtual Reality / Cyberspace

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