''she began publishing sf with ''Arachne'' for Omni in 1987, a tale she expanded into her first novel, ARACHNE (1990), a tightly composed kitchen-sink narrative set in a post-earthquake San Francisco, in cyberspace, and in the heart of a complex corporate world, with a tough female lawyer as protagonist, a maimed AI personality as trickster and dubious colleague, and cyberspace-haunting human personas everywhere at risk from AI's longing to acquire unprogrammed human virtues'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).