This science fiction story explores the world of data theft in a computer-dominated future. Laura begins as an ambitious young executive with high hopes for her future but becomes entangled in economic wars that compel her to travel around the world in search of a vision of the whole system. Bruce Sterling also wrote "Involution Ocean", "The Artificial Kid" and "Schismatrix".
- ISBN10 0099552000
- ISBN13 9780099552000
- Publish Date 19 October 1989 (first published 20 July 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Legend paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English