Richard Calder is the best of the post-Gibson generation of writers, and his first three novels were published to considerable acclaim. His writing is dark and lyrical, and his vision of a future in which strange, out-of-control technologies threaten to alter the very nature of reality is staggering. CYTHERA is a powerful and challenging novel which will confirm his place at the cutting edge of science fiction. Zane Weary, Jack Pimpernel, Max Moroder, Tarquin: he has many names - and many pasts. But he only has one ghost: the beautiful Dahlia Chan. Together, they roam the icy wastes of the despoiled Antarctica and prowl the corrupt streets of Bangkok, one short step ahead of the authorities, and one long, weary journey from their goal. For only on the island of Cythera will Dahlia finally be released from the image world of the mediascape from which she came.