Ever since science fiction writer William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace," computer users have struggled with the notion of what exactly that "space" means. For example, as I sit at a keyboard in Idaho preparing to send my review into this "cyberspace," I can visualize what states it might cross, but I know that it will not travel through pathways mimicking interstate highways or continental air routes. The e-mailed manuscript seems to inhabit such a non-specific, disembodied, and abstract space that I think of Gertrude Stein's description of Oakland, Calif.-"there is no there there."

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