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About the Author:
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.
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"Powerful . . . Entertaining . . .Imaginative."
--PeopleMagazine
"Inhumanity's daring to enter the cybernetic heaven (and hell) of telespace, LisaMason reveals the lineaments of all that is tragic and transcendent in ourevolution. Once the journey into this vivid and terrifying future has begun,there is no returning until the infinite has been faced and the last wordread."
--David Zindell, Author of Neverness
"Cybernetics,robotics, the aftermath of San Francisco's Big Quake II, urban tribalism--LisaMason combines them all with such deftness and grace, they form a living world.Mason spins an entertaining tale . . . She allows Carly's robotic allies ameasure of personality and sophistication beyond the stock role of a chirpingR2D2 or a blandly sinister Hal . . . Her characters and their world will staywith you long after you've finished this fine book."
--Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
"LisaMason stakes out, within the cyberpunk sub-genre, a territory all her own."
--The SanFrancisco Chronicle
"Mason'sendearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the mostjaded SF fan."
--Booklist
"Arachneis an impressive debut by a writer gifted with inventiveness, wit, and insight.The characters face choices well worth reading about. This is cyberpunk with aheart."
--Nancy Kress, Author of Brain Rose
"Thereis a refreshing amount of energy associated with Lisa Mason's writing. The goodold values are there: fun, excitement, drama--but served up with new andoriginal twists. Lisa Mason is definitely a writer to watch--and to read."
--Paul Preuss, Author of Venus Prime
"LisaMason must be counted among science fiction's most distinctive voices as werush toward the new millennium."
--Ed Bryant
--PeopleMagazine
"Inhumanity's daring to enter the cybernetic heaven (and hell) of telespace, LisaMason reveals the lineaments of all that is tragic and transcendent in ourevolution. Once the journey into this vivid and terrifying future has begun,there is no returning until the infinite has been faced and the last wordread."
--David Zindell, Author of Neverness
"Cybernetics,robotics, the aftermath of San Francisco's Big Quake II, urban tribalism--LisaMason combines them all with such deftness and grace, they form a living world.Mason spins an entertaining tale . . . She allows Carly's robotic allies ameasure of personality and sophistication beyond the stock role of a chirpingR2D2 or a blandly sinister Hal . . . Her characters and their world will staywith you long after you've finished this fine book."
--Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
"LisaMason stakes out, within the cyberpunk sub-genre, a territory all her own."
--The SanFrancisco Chronicle
"Mason'sendearing characters and their absorbing adventures will hook even the mostjaded SF fan."
--Booklist
"Arachneis an impressive debut by a writer gifted with inventiveness, wit, and insight.The characters face choices well worth reading about. This is cyberpunk with aheart."
--Nancy Kress, Author of Brain Rose
"Thereis a refreshing amount of energy associated with Lisa Mason's writing. The goodold values are there: fun, excitement, drama--but served up with new andoriginal twists. Lisa Mason is definitely a writer to watch--and to read."
--Paul Preuss, Author of Venus Prime
"LisaMason must be counted among science fiction's most distinctive voices as werush toward the new millennium."
--Ed Bryant
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0380709112
- ISBN 13 9780380709113
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages263
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