Islands in the Net (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Bruce Sterling
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: 2022-c. 2025
- Setting: Various locations on Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Twenty-first century, Assassination, Earth, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Technology, Pirates
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
Laura and David Webster, along with a small staff, run a guest house in Galveston, Texas, for the Rizome firm, a quasi-communal corporation structured loosely around a Japanese feudal system. David and Laura are associates of this multinational firm and have become coordinators to rear a family (they have an infant daughter, Loretta) and to make themselves visible to the Rizome dignitaries who vacation at the guest house.
Both Laura and David are on the fast track to success in their occupations when the company informs them that they will be hosting special...
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