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Islands in the Net
Published 1988 by Arbor House · 348 pages
Hugo · 1989
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4 award entries · 4 books · 0 wins · 1986–1999
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Synopsis
In a near-future world dominated by networked multinational corporations, Laura Webster is a public relations executive drawn into a web of intrigue involving data pirates, rogue nations, and terrorist attacks. Sterling paints a prescient vision of a hyper-connected twenty-first century where the places that exist outside the global net harbor both danger and revolution.
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