Reviews for Live without a Net

The average rating for Live without a Net based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-28 00:00:00 Ian Wellsby I rich collection of stories that imagine a variety of futures without the internet and cyberspace. Here are some of my favorites - all of them highly recommended! I will definitely be going back to reread them, to try to figure out how the authors accomplished so much in so few words. "Singletons in Love" by Paul Melko "Reformation" by Alex Irvine "I Feed the Machine" by Del Stone Jr. "Dobcheck, Lost in the Funhouse" by Mike Resnick and Kay Kenyon "Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future" by Michael Swanwick And there were probably more great stories that I'm forgetting. The only glitch in the collection was the story that read like erotica, with literally pages of graphic descriptions of sex, starting from the first line (and with the theme of virtual reality as sexual wish fulfillment somewhere in there). Nothing against the genre, but it was a jarring transition and made me imagine a manuscript somehow ending up in the wrong pile.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-27 00:00:00 Mikey Baby It's been some time since I've read this anthology, but it means something when a short story collection primarily consisting of authors I'm not otherwise familiar with makes a good impression. The concepts presented here are varied, but many are fascinating, and I will be revisiting it again.