SF novel.

''set after a plague holocaust in a physically intact San Francisco, the tale presents its protagonists' capacity to make art analogous to the shaping of a new reality. If there is a slight air of local patriotism in the book's apotheosis of San Francisco, it is at the same time perhaps something of a relief to participate in a vision of the future not bound by cyberpunk shibboleths'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).