Donnerjack — Roger Zelazny; Jane Lindskold

Legendary scientist and engineer, Donnerjack strides like a giant across two worlds: our own-called Verite-and Virtu, the virtual landscape he helped to create.

Lover and poet with a warrior's soul, Donnerjack hopes to build a sanctuary and a self for his beloved Ayradyss on his ancestral Scottish lands in the first world; but he must first bargain with Death himself for her return.

Now cataclysmic change is taking place in the virtual realm, as a vast computer system prepares for the ultimate takeover of the reality that constructed it. And John D'Arcy Donnerjack and his dark-haired lady of Virtu must guard from Death--and after death--a glorious, impossible creation that is to play an integral role in the future molding of both universes: a son.