A virtual reality world. A world of depth. Computer corporations create in this world a brilliant city of entertainment—Diptown—where the road is open to no one. Into the depths, people go in search of freedom, and once they find it—or the appearance of it—they try to stay there forever. “Rejects” are brought out from the depths by professional rescuers-divers, for whom there are no moral prohibitions: virtual duels and computer sex, their own customs and laws—sometimes funny, and often cruel…