Dancers in the dark Book

Sequel to Arachne (which I read in January 2019). Telelinker Carly Nolan had an anomaly in a link was sent to a perimeter prober, Pr. Spinner. In a session they discovered an archtype. Spinner instead of turning over this information to R-X and who would probably kill Carly to get at the archtype, keeps it to herself and helps Carly hide from Data Control. They have just started working together when Carly is kidnapped and forced to work with an unknown mainframe.

The aborigines disdain everything to do with telelinking, what they call the Unseen, but Ouija is coerced into dealing with Carly. Ouija has to deal with the personal conflict of having anything to do with Glass Land (other that steal from it) as well as the threat to the tribe. There is a push to get the abos to go to shelters where they'd get food, but also be registered. That would certainly lead to the end of their way of life and maybe worse.

There was enough background given in the first couple of chapters that refreshed my memory of Arachne, enough that you could probably enjoy this one without having read Arachne. I liked the characters. The robots had their own personalities. Carly has a dilemma, she doesn't want to go from working for a heartless (maybe even evil) law firm to a mainframe that may be inimical to humanity.