"SYNNERS IS A KNOCK-OUT. WITTY, RUDE AND RICH WITH IDEAS." -ELLEN DATLOW, FICTION EDITOR, OMNI To be a Synner is to join the on-line hardcore, an outlaw band of video hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers-hot-wired socket-jockeys hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines-jack into cyberspace dreamworlds and leave the meat behind. All it costs you is your freedom-and your humanity. But something new is loose in the network, a wildfire virus with a mind of its own that can crash the system and trash your brain. The Synners created it. Now it's up to them to stop it. SYNNERS Spectra Special Editions is a program dedicated to original works by today's most visionary writers. Titles selected as Special Editions are ambitious, imaginative fiction representative of the finest writing in any genre.