Arachne

Extract: In the future, you can exist and conduct business in virtual reality. Strapped to a chair and connected through a port implanted in the neck, you can telelink, and conduct business in the blink of an eye. Carly Nolan is a lawyer about to go on her first solo court case in telelink. Seconds before arriving in court to represent a conglomerate being sued for stealing intellectual property, Carly experiences a blackout and has a strange vision of spider weaving a web. In the two seconds it takes for the blackout to clear itself, the judge is furious for the delay, accepts a new court date, and orders Carly to perimeter probing and recertification…