Virtual Vandals establishes the settings and atmosphere for the Net Force novels to follow. The year is 2025, and the Internet has become an intricate world of interconnecting virtual realities. People have implants that allow them to blend their consciousnesses into the imaginative, fabricated locales created by individual people, as well as by governments and businesses.

The implants are supposed to give each person a unique, irreproducible identification when they enter the virtual reality of the Internet and wherever they wander in the various virtual settings.

There are three important settings in Virtual Vandals. The first is presented at the beginning, Camden Yards stadium, where a baseball game is to be played. In attendance are people like Net Force Explorer Leif Anderson, who is actually in New York but is present as a hologram. Computer technology is so sophisticated that people can use their computers to be someplace far...