ARACHNE

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. A hip, intense SF novel about artificial intelligence, in the cyberpunk mode of William Gibson's "Neuromancer" trilogy. A tale of corporate greed, rampant materialism and ruthless ambition set in San Francisco in the future, after the Big Quake, where an underground network of AIs pirate human souls. Reginald 29195. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. Publisher's review slip and publicity sheet laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#42063) (Inventory #: 42063)