E-mail Matt Jarpe at m.jarpe@comcast.net
Web design & programming by David Louis Edelman.
Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe.
Available Summer 2007 from Tor Books.
Give the people what they want.
That's what they say, but if you ask the people what they want and then try to give it to them, you end up with a mess. So you don't ask them. You don't get objective truth out of the mouth, you have to go to the source. You have to get inside their heads.
Aqualung knows how to get inside his audience's heads. He knows what kind of music they really want, and this knowledge has propelled the Snake Vendors to the peak of fame. He also knows what kind of world the people want, and it isn't the kind of world they are about to get.
Walter Cheeseman is about to give the people the kind of world he wants. He knows how to control the people by controlling information. The only thing that stands in his way is a wild intelligent virus called the Digital Carnivore.
Quin Taber is on the trail of the Digital Carnivore. He has discovered the origins of the virus and is about to unlock the secret that will control it, and through the virus, all of the computers in the world. His motivation: revenge against his former boss, Walter Cheeseman.
On the eve of Unification, when all countries of the world come together under one government, a musician, a hacker and a trickster god of the web combine forces to give the people a new choice.