Imagine interstellar internet where, as information, the digitized consciousnesses of the users move from star to star. Technocosm is more than an information network. It’s an interface between intelligent life in the universe and the physical world.
The events take place fourteen years before the events described in “Nanotech Network,” so in a sense it can be considered a “prequel” to “Nanotech,” although it’s a completely independent work that can be read just as well by readers who haven’t read the first novella.