Her novels include Summer of Love , Arachne , Cyberweb , and The Golden Nineties . She lives in Sausalito, California. Cyberweb Lisa Mason Tribute Site A review by Charlene Brusso Pangaea considers itself a civilized world which thrives on order, reined in and stabilized over the millennia by the laws of the all-powerful Imperium.
Society is divided into rigid castes denoted by genetic purity.
As far as the pures are concerned, the only instability within Pangaea is the random, dangerous quaking of the earth, a threat which top scientists work to predict and someday hope to alleviate, or even prevent. From there we jump to Plaia, a researcher of quakes and resonance theory, in the thick of the geologic upheaval. Returning home to celebrate, Plaia briefly makes eye contact with a sexy young guy on the street. That young man is Dubban, a technician in one of the natalries where babies are made on Pangaea, and he doesn't forget Plaia's face either, as he suffers through the next work day. Knowing that just touching the beautiful woman he saw would be a crime against purity seems even more unfair.