On the edge of an adult career as a specialist in data systems at Sept-Fortune, senior apprentice Cecilie finds her final test to move up both unexpected and unacceptable and sets out to discover the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Beautiful imagery in the imagined world of future Venice, parallelled with the online world created by master artisans. Everyone has a masque, or an avatar, that portrays them in the digital world. What happens when power struggles between the creators, an unknown digital presence, and a brilliant student of the digital arts?
one of the most thought-invoking novels i've read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
talk about imagination! lewitt's metaphors and intriguing ideas of a futuristic world come together in a fantastic knot of science fiction and fantasy. be drawn in to a world of masked faces and surprising revelations.
A haunting evocation of a very possible future
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Very briefly, INTERFACE MASQUE is one of those novels whose underlying assumptions are so well constructed that it draws you into its world completely. Read it. I assure you that you will never again hear cyberspace described as "the Information Superhighway" without thinking that Lewin's "Infosea" is a much, much better metaphor.
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