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Blurb: “Melissa Scott's career in science fiction began in the 1980s; she soon won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Dreamships, considered "intellec-tually neat, emotionally satistying and entirely unexpected" (The New York Times), established her as a writer who had arrived. "Bless Ms. Scott," said Donald M. Kingsbury, "Dreamships is that rarity, real science fiction."
Her last novel, Burning Bright, praised as “an intelligent, engaging, and memorable book" (Publishers Weekly) and "an almost magical experience, an involving tale of art and intrigue" (Locus), confirmed Scott as a significant force in the SF of the 1990s.
Now, in Trouble and Her Friends, Scott combines cyberpunk computer technology and sociological extrapolation in her best SF novel yet. She has looked into the future and seen the closing of the
cyberspace frontier, the time when hip. noir adventurers who got by on wit, bravado and drugs come up against the encroachments of civilization and responsibility - and must adapt or die.
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nots and force illegal netwalkers like India Carless, alias Trouble, to come in from the cold.
The freowheeling spirits of the Shadows must reconcile themselves to work in the bright light of corporate life or play harmless games. India, once a powerful force in the Shadows, got out just ahead of the law and runs a small network for an artists' co-op.
Now someone has taken her name away and begun to use it for criminal hacking.
So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she has tried to settle down-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.“