The Sequel to Arachne Carly Quester was once a professional telelinker with a powerful and corrupt mediation firm. Now she lives as an outlaw among the underground in San Francisco, wanted by the authorities for dubious crimes against Data Control. But with a new assignment from a mysterious sengine-and the help of a standalone AI entity, Pr. Spinner-Carly seeks the fast-track back into public telespace and the Prime Time. Her assignment, however, comes with sticky strings attached. For it has made Carly the target of a ruthless mercenary ultra, the love obsession of the young shaman of a savage urban tribe-and a possible pawn of the Silicon Supremacists plotting no less than the annihilation of humankind. "Mason's endearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the most jaded SF fan." --Booklist Lisa Mason has published ten novels including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book), Strange Ladies: 7 Stories (a collection of previously published fiction), and thirty-three stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright as a feature film to Universal Pictures. Literary agent: Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group