Cythera
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ISBN: 0312180748 / Publisher: St Martins Pr, April 1998
In the year 2050, illegal immigrants from cyberspace, in the form of eidolons downloaded from the Internet, threaten the superiority and reality of all humankind
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The illegal immigrants of 2025 are not Third World emigrants - they're coming from cyberspace. Downloaded eidolons walk the streets as holograms by day, and at night they grow corporeal. These "ghosts" are growing more human and more real than the world that spawned them...and now they're looking to alter reality in order to accommodate their needs. Young Dahlia Chan, star of such chop-socky masterpieces as Kung Fu Nymphet from Hell, is becoming the most important ghost of all. She is a copy divorced from its original, and she's growing more powerful.A thief named Mosquito has been hired by Madame Kito (one of Bangkok's powerful pornocrats) to steal Dahlia and neutralize the threat of the ghosts. But Mosquito recognizes something of himself in Dahlia, and kidnapping her may be just the start of something bigger ...
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