Synopses & Reviews
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or die.
India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op.
Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.
Review
"A gritty, real-feeling book about sexy women from the punk side of the tracks, empowered by the nets but managing not to be corrupted by power: and a wry and interesting look at what happens when the law moves in on the wild cyberspace frontier." -Gwyneth Jones, author of
White Queen
Review
Praise for Trouble and Her Friends:
“A gritty, real-feeling book about sexy women from the punk side of the tracks, empowered by the nets but managing not to be corrupted by power: and a wry and interesting look at what happens, when the law moves in on the wild cyberspace frontier.”
—Gwyneth Jones, author of White Queen
“Scotts best work: vivid, fast-moving, and startlingly erotic.”
—Nicola Griffith, winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
“Provocative, well-written and thoroughly entertaining, Trouble and Her Friends marks a new high in Melissa Scotts impressive career.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Synopsis
Set 100 years in the future, this is a cyberpunk SF novel about intrigue and adventure in the virtual reality of the computer networks, at the moment when the law is cracking down on a new generation of computer criminals. Someone has stolen Trouble's identity on the nets and she, the greatest hacker of them all, returns from retirement to track down and confront the impostor.
Synopsis
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or die.
India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op.
Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.
About the Author
Melissa Scott lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She won the John Campbell Award at the start of her career, and is twice winner of the Lambda Award for SF.