New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A unique coming of age novel featuring a young boy who lives with his uncle on a research outpost on the planet Paradise. "Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger." 349 pp. ISBN: 0-312861834.