The Fortunate Fall, Cameron Reed (1996)
What happens to politics when reportage includes not only words and images, but also direct access to the sensations and thoughts of the reporter? What happens to love when technology can dissolve the barriers that separate self from self? This novel speculates. In some ways a successor to Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Reed even winks a few references), this book is harder to follow than Neuromancer. It gets convoluted, with the result that the narrative has some explaining to do before it can conclude. Nevertheless an inventive, sometimes exciting evolution of cyberpunk themes.