Islands in the Net

The year is 2023, the place Galveston, and Laura Webster is happy. She and her adored David are bringing up their new baby in a world where nuclear weapons, environmental crises and national politics are all things of the past. The Net—a global telecommunications system, using technology pioneered in the late twentieth century—provides activity, friendship, and support, through economic democratic corporations, like Laura’s own company, Rizome. Then Rizome calls a secret conference with offshore data-pirates and Laura’s safe world explodes in her face.