by Pat Cadigan
Published 1991
In a near-future Los Angeles where consciousness can be jacked directly into the global net, the line between human thought and machine signal is starting to dissolve. A rockstar becomes the first person to receive a full-brain socket implant, and when a stroke ripples outward through the network he has been riding, the damage propagates through the system as a catastrophic, live virus. Four people, a pirate coder, a corporate researcher, a jaded video editor, and a teenage hacker, find themselves tangled in the aftermath, each chasing a different piece of the same unfolding disaster. Pat Cadigan's 1991 novel, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, is one of the defining works of cyberpunk's second wave and one of the first to treat the net as a lived social space rather than a trophy to be hacked. Sharp, profane, and crackling with pre-web prescience, Synners imagines a culture that has fully fused with its screens and asks what happens when the screens begin to fail on a neurological level.
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