Tight, clean, flat, square, crisp and sharp book in DJ with wrinkled DJ.
Scott returns to the
world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her
novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a
planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval.
Celinde Fortune is an entertainer - an illusionist who makes good money
but plays the Empire Theatre, a venue that also books socially
controversial bands who attract bomb threats. When she combines two
advanced computer chips in a new way in order to sophisticate her act,
the resulting form of computer life seems awfully like a true artificial
intelligence. And this is beyond controversial - it could get her
killed.