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Malila is useless by her own side - at least, that is exactly what she hopes General Jourdaine and the complete Unity will believe. Middle-aged 17-year-old Malila Chiu has no choice but to flee her homeland. Making common cause with the peculiar subterranean workers of the beltways, Malila perseveres toward independence in the scorched areas of America. Nearly naked, without friends, no resources, in support of a scant idea of the road, Malila's only real information comes from amount of time in the outlands. While a captive of the old, harsh-and-tender-by-turns Jesse Johnstone, Malila learned of the lies informed her by her homeland and the truths shown her by the arrogant and contradictory Jesse. She considers she may love him. Only if he were not so strange.... Going after Malila and becoming more enthusiastic about each failure, Jourdaine moves better at each turn. Jesse, once again the mark for assassination from old enemies, escapes to the skies, utilizing a huge new American R-ship, the Illinois, in his own attempt to find Malila. Spies, subterranean poet-socialists, virtual entities, interfaces, and folks - both bad and the good - wrestle the Fates for survival and supremacy in a 22nd-century America.
