In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end.Love Minus Eightyfollows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come.
There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sacrifices all to visit her in a cryogenic dating facility, seeking forgiveness but instead falling in love.
Veronika, a shy dating coach, finds herself coaching the very woman who is stealing the man she loves.
And Mira, a gay woman accidentally placed in a heterosexual dating center near its inception, desperately seeks a way to reunite with her frozen partner as the years pass.
In this daring and big-hearted novel based on the Hugo-winning short story, the lovelorn navigate a world in which technology has reached the outer limits of morality and romance.
Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose short stories have appeared in
Asimov's(where he won the 2010 Reader's Award for short story),
Strange Horizons,
Interzone, and
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Best of the Year, among others. His first novel,
Soft Apocalypse, was released in 2011 from Night Shade Books, and his second novel,
Hitchers, was released in February, 2012. In 2008 he became the father of twins. How do we keep on connecting in our ever-growing maze of social technologies? How can love succeed in the techno-surround we've trapped ourselves in? These are the questions Will McIntosh explores in this tightly plotted tangle of love stories. The stirring result casts a clear and knowing eye on our current society, from the best viewpoint of all: the future.
New York Timesbestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson onLove Minus Eighty Love Minus Eightyis a book that makes me envious as a writer: a clever premise, brilliantly executed. More importantly, though, it'lă!
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