A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future.
- Bruce Sterling. The second volume in Shirley's cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth, this thrilling chapter returns to the World War III era, in which the New Resistance, a gang of technologically adept guerilla fighters, face off against the Second Alliance, a neofascist army of mercenaries. The opposing forces struggle for control of FirStep, an orbiting space colony that could extend the alliance's domination to all of humanity.