The JazzMelissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award, twice winner of the Lambda Award for best novel, and author of the cyberpunk classic, Trouble and Her Friends, returns with a hip novel of the media-dominated future, when the internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation that are both an artform and a business. Tin Lizzy, a respected Jazz artist with a checkered past, is a theatrical Web site designer who does backgrounds for Jazz productions. When a nifty new script shows up on the web, Lizzy is surprised to learn it came from a teenage boy named Keyz. It turns out Keyz used his parents' access codes to borrow a Hollywood studio's editing program- the true, hidden source of the studio's success. Now the studio head wants to lock him in jail and throw away the key. So Lizzy rescues him and takes him on the road, across the altered landscape of twenty-first century USA, trying to stay one step ahead of the police . . . . and the vengeance of a megalomaniac CEO. The Jazz is a road chase novel of the future, filled with shady characters, close calls, and colorful neat ideas. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. |
Contents
prologue | 9 |
one | 19 |
two | 34 |
three | 52 |
four | 64 |
five | 78 |
six | 93 |
seven | 110 |
ten | 153 |
eleven | 170 |
twelve | 192 |
thirteen | 206 |
fourteen | 225 |
fifteen | 248 |
sixteen | 267 |
seventeen | 281 |
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