A Speed Death ProductionSchuyler races across the western US desert at night. He must outthink the government satellites' tracking systems and outrun their deadly pulse-phase particle beams. It's his job as a sprinter: he delivers computer chips for the European black market.The sprinters' race is televised to the world—as quick clean vectors and fussy curves of light. But Schuyler—unlike his fellow sprinters—is becoming a star: a religious cult considers him the father of the Godhead, his life and times are being broadcast to the world, and he's been the victim of a murder attempt. Now his personal computer is telling him: "All the sprinters are going to die except you."

Set in a devastated Los Angeles, decades in the future, the struggle between the forces of anarchy and religious conservatism present a vision of America on the edge of apocalypse...From the CoverCome to Rattown, boys and girls. Walk the interface. Dr. Adder will make your most cherished dream come true—even if it kills you.A Los Angeles populated by freaks and goons and down-and-outers—and my John Mox's Moral Forces. While Mox broadcasts sermons to tranquilize the mind, Dr. Adder rules the city—with his body-sculpting scalpels and soul searing halucinogens.Drugs. Power. Money. Sex. Whatever your habit, Dr. Adder is your friend. And that's why Mox wants him dead.