When Joshua Victor discovers a team of permanent Net users who are intent on controlling the Net for their own purposes, he confronts them, but they turn on him to prevent him blowing the whistle.
In a violent future Earth, Joshua Victor spends so much time on the Net that he hardly knows what the real world is like. But when he meets the Holomen, who want to suck up the Earth's resources, he realizes that only he can stop them.
