Vacuum Flowers

Swanwick, Michael. Vacuum Flowers. New York: Arbor, 1987. Also publ. in an [S. F.] Book Club Edition, n.d., no ISBN.

Episodic cyberpunk novel set in a far future in which the outer planets of our system are dominated by huge corporations dealing in "wetware": not humans as such but personality reprogramming software. The narrator contacts space stations, mechanized worlds with jungle interiors, and an Earth populated by humans with cybernetic implants linking them to an AI and into a mass mind. Rev. Joe Sanders, Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual (1988): 316-17.