Worldwired (50 page)
Centuries hence, an ecoterrorist revolution has reduced the population of Earth to a few hundred thousand. Remnants of humanity survive under the control of artificial intelligences known as the Governors and under the constant threat of Assessment—or
culling
. A fascist Colonial Coalition rules the government, and their desperate goal is to prevent the extermination of the species—by any means necessary.
But before humanity was Assessed for its crimes against the planet, a few ships escaped. . . .
A century has passed, and old lovers Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen have been reunited for one last mission. Once the finest team of ambassador-spies old Earth possessed, they are now outcasts of their own society. But only their talents can unlock the secrets of New Amazonia.
Of the original colonies, New Amazonia alone possesses an alien technology that seems to provide a clean, environmentally sound source of power. It's the key to freeing humanity from the rule of the Governors—and Michelangelo and Vincent are dispatched to steal it, under the guise of a diplomatic mission. But what they uncover in that distant jungle may transform them—and their fragile culture—beyond recognition.
Coming in Fall of 2006
WORLDWIRED
A Bantam Spectra Book / December 2005
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York,
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Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear
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