Live Without a Net

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Imagine a future without cyberspace... without virtual reality...without Als and simulations... and without the Web. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. This anthology of stories from today's top masters of speculative fiction offers visions of futures near and far, glimpses of alternative histories, and dark journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the end of a different tunnel? What would we find in dimensions where the seemingly inevitable vastness of cyberspace has been replaced by things both surprising and strange? The answers are in the startiing a nd ingenious imaginations of the SF masters who dared to go there, to dream, to warn, and to fathom the alternatives. Welcome to science fiction unplugged and set free to be... LIVE WITHOUT A NET Lou Anders • Stephen Baxter • Dávid Brin Pat Cadigan • Paul Di Filippo • John Grant • Dave Hutchinson Alex Irvine • Terry... Tovább

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Imagine a future without cyberspace... without virtual reality...without Als and simulations... and without the Web. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. This anthology of stories from today's top masters of speculative fiction offers visions of futures near and far, glimpses of alternative histories, and dark journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the end of a different tunnel? What would we find in dimensions where the seemingly inevitable vastness of cyberspace has been replaced by things both surprising and strange? The answers are in the startiing a nd ingenious imaginations of the SF masters who dared to go there, to dream, to warn, and to fathom the alternatives. Welcome to science fiction unplugged and set free to be... LIVE WITHOUT A NET Lou Anders • Stephen Baxter • Dávid Brin Pat Cadigan • Paul Di Filippo • John Grant • Dave Hutchinson Alex Irvine • Terry McGarry • John Meaney • Paul Melko Mike Resnick & Kay Kenyon • Chris Roberson • Adam Roberts Rudy Rucker • S. M. Stirling • Del Stone, Jr. • Charles Stross Matthew Sturges • Michael Swanwick "For those like me who think cyberpunk is SO last millennium, here's a terrific, thought-provoking, widely varied anthology of stories giving alternative visions of our online future. Live Without a Net contains nothing but first-rate fiction; it's a Dangerous Visions for the digital age." -Róbert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-Winning Author of Hominids Vissza