She hasn’t been in Philly long, but the terrain is familiar, just one more sub-sector of the vast metroplex sprawling away to the
horizon, an urban nightmare that will one day blanket the globe. Cablecast 
trideo, the global computer networks, and the world’s hopelessly interlocked
economies have so homogenized the urban lands where Tikki hunts that she often 
has to stop and remind herself where she is. Telling one place from another is 
sometimes that difficult.