The Heretic

In a world where people put more faith in digital records than in their own memories or senses, the one who runs the machines effectively decides what is real. This novel mixes fast-paced action with the strange logic of virtual reality, and it reads as something new in its approach. Set within the hidden corners of the network, it follows a struggle between elite programmers, whom ordinary users regard as sorcerers. What they are fighting over is the power to shape the basic structure of existence itself.