Once Carly Nolan was a high-powered lawyer, mechanically modified to conduct all her business in a cybernetic "telespace". Now, fired from the firm and on the run from Data Control, Carly finds herself living on the ragged edge of a futuristic San Francisco -- without access to either cash or telespace. Keeping her company in exile is Pr. Spinner, her A.I. nemesis. Kidnapped by an outlaw gang, Carly must strike a bargain with a mysterious mainframe entity and suddenly finds herself caught up in a desperate race against time as the Silicon Supremacists move ever closer to their ultimate goal: the destruction of humanity and telespace.