When gene hacker Alex Sharkey helps a super-smart girl turn a genetically-engineered doll into a new species he accidentally gives history a dangerous shove

Tells the story of Case, a burnt-out software cowboy forced to do one last job in the infinite bytes of cyberspace.

Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful Neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated primer, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.

The third novel from one of the most exciting new British SF writers of the decade.

The time is early in the 23rd century. Mars has been terraformed and is now politically independent. Meanwhile on Earth, there is terminal overpopulation, reduced resources and the bitter nationalism that these problems create. The concluding volume in the Mars trilogy.

The author's first collection of short stories set in the Sprawl, the landscape of Neuromancer . Cybernetics, biotech and the communication web are constant themes throughout.