Possivelmente Cicada Queen de Bruce Sterling .
As Lagostas são um grupo mais apropriadamente chamado de Mecanismos :
I found Wellspring in the swollen bubble of a tubeway bar, discussing a convoluted business deal with a man he introduced as "the Modem." The Modem was a member of a small but vigorous Mechanist sect known in C-K slang as Lobsters. These Lobsters lived exclusively within skin-tight life-support systems, flanged here and there with engines and input-output jacks. The suits were faceless and dull black. The Lobsters looked like chunks of shadow.
O protagonista, Landau (acho que nunca aprendemos seu sobrenome), tem que se tornar um Mech para escapar de algumas pessoas importantes que ele ofendeu. Ele acaba ficando um Mech e governando um grupo chamado Terraform-Kluster.