Trouble and Her Friends (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Melissa Scott
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: The near future
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Future, Outlaws, Information science or systems
- Locales: United States
The Plot
Trouble and Cerise are partners, both in bed and on the computer “net.” They are part of the new breed of “crackers” who have brainworms (a high-tech input system) implanted in them. The brainworms enable them to receive more information when they “walk the net.” They have been working in the “shadows,” stealing information from corporate computer systems and selling it to shady clients. The Evans-Tinsdale Act makes the misdemeanors they have been committing into felonies. Cerise wants to continue working as an outlaw, so Trouble deserts her.
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