title: Lightspeed
author: Morrison, Jill
description: In this novella, a twist on the time-honored Charlotte Bronte novel, Jane Eyre, Owen Bland is on his way to Vegas, a place inhabited by the obscenely wealthy and the obscenely poor. He has taken a job as a tutor, escaping his savage boarding school life. His employer, Evelyn Sales, is beautiful, rich and brilliant. In the early days of a very close future, where everyone is rigged bionically to the Net, Bland comes to love this complicated woman and finds himself drawn into the terrible secret she cannot leave behind