Maggie Furey

It is 2028 and the Internet is about to become a lot more than an information superhighway... Six novellas from six of the biggest names in the genre, charting a world that is about to change forever. A world where our children will make our first contact. A contact that will take place in the Web; the vast network of virtual reality sites that has become a playground for the world's children and a stage for the most dramatic event in mankind's history. Featuring complete novellas from Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, James Lovegrove, Maggie Furey, Pat Cadigan and Eric Brown, THE WEB 2028 presents six unique, linked views of the future.

From the jacket Inside the wall of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's most tightly held secret: the reason for her father's death. It was a truth that, at times, Christy felt she was barely strong enough to face, for it meant openly confronting Spindrift's domineering mistress-her mother-in-law, Theodora Moreland. Yet it was a battle that Christy knew she could not escape, especially if she was to free her young son from the obsessive and destructive hold the Morelands had come to exert over him. As Christy searches out the mysteries that haunt Spindrift-and the people in it-she slowly unveils a tightly woven web of deceit that only murder can continue to conceal....