 It is set in San Francisco.Tiffany Lee Brown of "Wired" stated that the "cybercultural parody" reflects "distinctive perspective on the foibles of the wired life" and "caricatures" people in the San Francisco technology environment.According to the author she took seven months to create the initial draft before selling it to the publisher, which asked for a substantial rewrite within a two month period; the publishers stated a dislike of the, in Sinclair's words, "too clichéd" criminal characters.