Nearly all Japan adores Rei Toei, and now, the country's most famous Rock Star decided to marry her. Rei Toei is not real, but information. The novel's scene is 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Nanotechnology has been used to immediately pull up a gigantic urban jungle of skyscrapers. By night, people can watch those towers growing - like watching a candle melt, but in reverse.
Walls just seal themselves over, one after another.
Tokyo is also the scene of organized crime. Colin Laney is this world's hero. For Laney, data is vivid, an endless vanilla plane, a sea of tapioca. His talent is to find structures in immense masses of data enabling him to prognosticate changes. To affect the market in patent gene futures is already somehow tougher.