HARMONIES OF THE 'NET

Fancher Jane S

ISBN 10: 0446362433 / ISBN 13: 9780446362436

Published by Questar, 1992

About this Item

1st printing. Desperate to keep the star-spanning 'Net from crashing and wiping out vital data, the politicians and technocrats call upon Stephen Ridenour, the tormented boy genius and one of the few programmers who can save them.

Seller Inventory # FD17.107

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HARMONIES OF THE 'NET
• Publisher: Questar
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446362433
• ISBN 13: 9780446362436
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: very good paperback,

About this title

Synopsis

When the database on which human society depends begins mysteriously to implode, the finger of causality points directly to HuteNamid, an idyllic planet on the very edge of human-occupied space.

The man pointing the finger is Stephen Ridenour, a young computer genius with a knife's edge hold on his sanity. The man targeted is Wesley Smith, another computer genius with the keys to that database and, according to Stephen, a revolutionary new theory about the nature of space itself.

Admiral Loren Cantrell of the Alliance starship, Cetacean,  is given the task of delivering Stephen to HuteNamid....and keeping him sane--and alive--at least long enough to confirm or disprove his suspicions.

But HuteNamid holds more than just a singularly attitudinal programmer. Cantrell finds herself up against a log jam of Native American Ethnic Reconstructionists and up to her oft-decorated collar in lies, plots, and deception.

For within HuteNamid itself lie the answers to some of the oldest mysteries of the universe.

About the Author

Back in an era when she was frequently the only female in her classes, Jane S. Fancher intended to be an Astronomer. To reach this lofty goal, she majored in Math, Physics, Astronomy . . . and minored in Anthropology. Naturally, all this education culminated in drawing Graphic Novels and writing Science Fiction and Fantasy---which she's been doing full time since the 1980's.
     She's also raised and trained horses, flown planes and built a 4000 gallon koi pond (with waterfall) with a mantis tiller and lots of rock picked up from roadsides throughout the country. At age 51, she took up a new hobby: figure skating.
     In 2009, with fellow authors C.J. Cherryh and Lynn Abbey, she embarked on a journey into the brave new world of ebook publishing with the creation of Closed Circle Publications, a source for backlist and new works by these three authors.