On Wings of Plague — Robert E. Vardeman

When you know everything, it can drive you crazy if you discover there is anything hidden from you. Wiki-tiki-tavi is a jacked in infomorph who must beg Pajarita to help him discover what he doesn't know. In return for facing death, she will gain the one thing she desires most--genetically implanted wings.

ON WINGS OF PLAGUE, set in the SPACE ISLANDS universe, is a thrilling new story of obsession, plague and space colonies.