Sid 6.7, a criminal personality developed for training policemen via virtual reality, manages to escape to the real world, and Parker Barnes, a former policeman convicted of killing his family's murderers, is released from prison to stop him
Terry Ballantine Bisson was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, as well as They're Made Out of Meat (1991), which has been adapted for video often.
Bisson makes a lot of interesting choices but also feels compelled to describe the skin color of every single character. In addition to being weird, it's just plain wrong sometimes, as the casting whims shifted.