Next Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2004) Wang's investigation will lead him

Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns

and all-seeing detective that we know and love from the cryptic Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade

perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition

and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future

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