Live Without a Net

Live Without a Net. Lou Anders, editor. New York City: Roc, 2003. For editions and at least two reviews, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of November 2023, here.[1] (The anthology title and titles of at least one story variously capitalized.)

Relevant stories include

• "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" by "John Grant" (pseudonym for Paul le Page Barnett)
• "Dobcheck, Lost in the Funhouse" by Mike Resnick and Kay Kenyon
• "Reformation" by Alex Irving
• "I Feed the Machine" by Del Stone, Jr.

Reviewed by Jeff Prickman, SFRA Review #265 (July-Sept. 2003): 16-17.[2]

The goal was an anthology of recent SF that was not cyberpunk (or VR), but "[...] the best tales in this anthology feature human-machine interfaces and embodied computers" (p. 16).

RDE, finishing, 17Nov23