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Eleven electrifying adventures in cyberspace Zip down the cyber superhighway as these fast-paced, breakthrough stories plunge you into a perhaps not-too-distant future and a thrilling, often chilling, present. It’s a heady cyber-zone where a portal mercilessly demands your soul, a blogger unwittingly sets up an armed conflict with a rapacious alien empire, a cyber-spook reveals an intriguing, hidden past, a ruler controls an entire city through neural networks, teddy bears store intimate technology, and humans and spirits slip through firewalls in minds and machines. From cutting-edge writers such as Vandana Singh, Ashok Banker, Manjula Padmanbhan, Payal Dhar, Jerry Pinto, Anil Menon and Rahul Shrivastava, these cyber tales map a spectacular universe of radical science and heady imagination. Fantastical, futuristic, and mostly just flat-out fun, Shockwave! and Other Cyber Stories is not just for hard-core digital converts but also for all those who know that a double-click can rush them headlong into a dramatic, digital, dizzying world.