SBN 0-441-00439-3
Published By: Bantam Spectra
Subject: Cyberpunk

Sangaman Taylor has one basic rule in life, small molecules are good, big ones are bad. Your typical non-conformist, ecological activist, out to track down the polluters of the world and expose them to the public for humiliations and (hopefully) prosecution. While working on one of his latest projects he becomes the target of Satanic angle-dust heads, the FBI and corporate strong arm types. Stephenson tells his tale of eco-terror with a a good dose of humor and cynicism while keeping the pace of the plot moving along just fast enough to keep you turning the pages well into the night. This is one of Stephenson's earlier works, pre-dating his better known Snow Crash and The Diamond Age and his writing style shows a level of enthusiasm that has waned in his more recent works. Though the characters are more stereotypes then full fledged personalities, they are sufficient to their task of telling the story and making the his point.