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Summer of Love

Lisa Mason

A time traveler from 500 years in the future must return to San Francisco, the summer of 1967, to find and protect the life of a teenaged runaway whose own life will have vast impact on the future. Meticulously researched and full of fun, but also a serious examination of the strengths and flaws of both the "counterculture" and America in the sixties.
Arachne

Lisa Mason

Originally published in 1990, this is among the vanguard of the "cyberpunk" novels, hailed by The Boston Globe as a "cyberpunk classic." Carly Nolan, a fast-track young lawyer conducting trials at lightning speed in telespace, is suddenly plagued by terrifying "bug" in her telelink. In her search for a cure, she becomes the protege of a corrupt older attorney whose own career is spiraling out of control and the patient of Pr. Spinner, a robot therapist who covets the metaprogram of life. Fast and fun, ARACHNE explores what it means to be a sentient lifeform.
Pangaea Book I: Imperium Without End (Pangaea)

Lisa Mason

A powerful, visionary epic from a celebrated voice in speculative fiction.

For millennia, the Imperium has held sway over Pangaea. The pure dreams of its great dreamers are used to elevate and pacify the consciousness of a society strictly divided by caste. Here eroticism is repressed for a higher cause, and sex is a shameful remnant of ages past. But when Pangaea's most beloved dreamer is brutally assassinated, it's clear that a dangerous group of revolutionaries is dreaming the old dreams of violence, uninhibited sex...and freedom.

For although Pangaea is the most benevolent of tyrannies, it is a tyranny nonetheless. Here an elite "pure" scientist and a lowly birthtank worker share a forbidden passion; a grief-stricken Imperial officer embarks on a fanatic crusade; a sensual erotician possesses powers beyond her understanding; and an "impure" terrorist and his vengeful daughter wreak a path of unspeakable destruction. As mysterious earthshocks shake Pangaea, they are drawn together by the outlawed Orb of Eternity--a feared and ancient oracle whose ambivalent message heralds either redemption...or apocalypse.
Cyberweb

Lisa Mason

Carly Nolan once fought warp-speed legal battles with the movers and shakers in cyberspace. Now she's a fugitive living the outlaw life at the bottom of the human trash heap on post-quake San Francisco Island.Carly Nolan wants to ride the fast track back into public telespace. But a new job sorting through virtually real detritus has made her the target of a ruthless robotic mercenary; the love obsession of a virile young urban tribal shaman; and a potential pawn of artificial intelligence terrorists seeking nothing less than the total annihilation of humankind.
The Golden Nineties

Lisa Mason

In this companion novel to SUMMER OF LOVE, another time traveler from the far future is compelled to return to San Francisco in 1895 to safeguard a Chinese girl sold into slavery. The time traveler herself becomes trapped in the past and switches her identity with the girl she is meant to protect with devastating consequences. Another analysis of American society of the time, THE GOLDEN NINETIES explores the roles of women during the fin de siecle period and showcases the delights of San Francisco before the great earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed the city. (Did you know there was a Bavarian castle atop Telegraph Hill where the famous Coit Tower now stands?) THE GOLDEN NINETIES was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and New York Public Library Recommended Book.
Pangaea Book II: Imperium Afire (Bantam Spectra Book)

Lisa Mason

In a world on the brink of destruction, there is no safe place to run.

Book Two in an epic of astonishing originality by one of the most imaginative voices in science fiction.

The once stable world of Pangaea is coming apart....Mysterious earthshocks convulse the land, and even the Imperium's caste system begins to crack. The dreams that have pacified millions are changing, contaminated by portents of doom.

For Pangaea's once benevolent tyranny has turned to torture to preserve its authority. Now the Imperium targets its gravest enemies: the daring erotician whose talent as an orbcaster empowers her to keep a wealth of secrets; the "impure" outlaw who finds herself undergoing an inexplicable transformation; and the gifted aetherist who finally sees the truth after years shackled by the Imperium sharemind. To succeed in finding a new life beyond the grip of the Imperium, they must know when to fight and when to run. But even if they throw off their oppressors, the destruction of Pangaea has already begun....