I have also read, and am looking for the name of, a similar book.
The story was set on a far away planet and to get there, "Pilots" had to navigate through hyperspace to get there. on this planet, there were native inhabitants who had access to an equivelant of the internet through their mind and other people could have implants to enable them to access a subset of what was available.
The story revolved around the mother of an earth man (tetsui was possibly his name ??) who traveled to the planet and met a native called (cynthia ??). another character (rafaelle ??) was the bad guy and he'd been mixing the technology to improve it. for safety reasons, the implants allowed were 2, but he'd exceeded the boundaries and had successfully merged implants with his mind and many other minds, hundreds of others. in the plot of trying to find her son, the mother accidently uncovers rafaelle, but not before rafaelle had executed some "programming language code" to absorb cynthia's brain, killing her. in the end, the mother undergoes the implant process, rafaelle tries to absorb her, she "nominates" rafaelle as her next of kin, therefore any damage to her also kills him. the pilots intervene and shut down the network before she dies but rafaelle himself dies.
the book, i think, was a one word title that began with Y.
was this the one you were after ? it's certainly the one i'm after.
regards
dave
The story was set on a far away planet and to get there, "Pilots" had to navigate through hyperspace to get there. on this planet, there were native inhabitants who had access to an equivelant of the internet through their mind and other people could have implants to enable them to access a subset of what was available.
The story revolved around the mother of an earth man (tetsui was possibly his name ??) who traveled to the planet and met a native called (cynthia ??). another character (rafaelle ??) was the bad guy and he'd been mixing the technology to improve it. for safety reasons, the implants allowed were 2, but he'd exceeded the boundaries and had successfully merged implants with his mind and many other minds, hundreds of others. in the plot of trying to find her son, the mother accidently uncovers rafaelle, but not before rafaelle had executed some "programming language code" to absorb cynthia's brain, killing her. in the end, the mother undergoes the implant process, rafaelle tries to absorb her, she "nominates" rafaelle as her next of kin, therefore any damage to her also kills him. the pilots intervene and shut down the network before she dies but rafaelle himself dies.
the book, i think, was a one word title that began with Y.
was this the one you were after ? it's certainly the one i'm after.
regards
dave
