BESHER, Alexander

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   US writer whose first sf novel,Rim: A Novel of VirtualReality (1994), recounts its complex, NEAR FUTURE tale in asurprisingly straightforward, non-gonzo manner. A university professor in California - ondiscovering that his son is trapped in a VIRTUAL REALITY world no longer,after anenormous earthquake in Tokyo, under the control of its Japanese owners - becomes a kind ofprivate eye, and experiences in the raw the technology/biology interfaces that govern the newcentury. A version of the book was first published in Japanese in MacPower, a Tokyo magazine.

   JC