Selection Number Two is
Tea From An Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan
This title deals with the classic situation of the Artificial reality becoming all to real in the minds of those who are jacked in. People are starting to die in ways that mimic the deaths of there Avatars in the AR, is this the work of a VR Serial killer? Detective Dora Konstantin Searches relentlessly for the answers through the dark side streets and ally ways of Noo Yawk Sitty in this AR meets real world gritty Cyberpunk novel.
I Really enjoyed this book, I read it right after I read Pat Cadigans book Synners (also on the suggested reading list) I give this book a 4 out of 5 it is truly great Cyberpunk!
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Review From Publishers Weekly
Artificial reality is where it's at if you're hot to party in the 21st century. Plugged-in gamers flock to such AR sites as post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty for wild cyberspace adventures. It costs a bundle to visit but it's guaranteed safe; you can die in AR and be back partying the next day. But now gamers are turning up dead in the real world, impossibly dead in locked rooms, in ways that mimic their supposedly harmless deaths on the Net. Dore Konstantin, a homicide cop with little AR experience, realizes that to solve the murders she's going to have to enter cyberspace. There she searches for the mysterious entity known as Body Sativa and, in an act of deliberate provocation, does so wearing the AR appearance of Shantih Love, the latest murder victim. Yuki Harame is also searching for someone, her missing lover who may or may not be the dead Shantih Love. Although neither Konstantin nor Yuki know of each other's existence, both have entered a dark world of online sexual perversion, and both are in deadly danger.
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