Chimera

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Rosenblum, Mary. Chimera. New York: Del Rey, 1993.

Cyberpunk story of a virtual-reality artist on the Net, his male partner, and Jewel, who escaped the violent, dirt-poor 'burbs by becoming a medical aide" and was "determined to make it as a VR deal-broker in the economic network that spanned the world," or at least two worlds: "the Net" and "flesh world" (Fantastic Fiction website entry, which we quote here).[1]

Discussed in Karen Cadora's "Feminist Cyberpunk" (p. 359, 362-63), who notes the novel's undercutting of cyberpunk's frequent masculinist (heterosexist) constructions with "The appearance of explicit homoeroticism" (Cadora p.363).