With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise for his debut novel, <I>Lightpaths</I>, «a taut…space-age slice of life» (<I> Publishers Weekly</I>), and its «brilliant» (<I>Locus</I>) follow-up, <I>Standing Wave</I>. <P> Now Hendrix meshes virtual reality, deep-space exploration, and human nature in a novel starkly breathtaking in its portrayal of...
