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In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows 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.
- Sales Rank: #776484 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Orbit
- Published on: 2013
- Released on: 2013-06-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.25" w x 5.50" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"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 Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson on Love Minus Eighty
"Love Minus Eighty is a book that makes me envious as a writer: a clever premise, brilliantly executed. More importantly, though, it's a book that thrilled and delighted me as a reader, chilling and touching at the same time, a great story that stimulates the mind, the heart and the nerves."―Charles Yu, the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"McIntosh's latest novel combines sf future tech with horror to craft a story that is both disturbing and hopeful as it questions the value of a life on borrowed time. The dystopic view of the future is both frightening and plausible, while the characters keep the story grounded in the details of human existence."―Library Journal on Love Minus Eighty
"Building his Hugo-winning short story "Bridesicle" into a novel, McIntosh takes a cold-eyed look at relationships in a grim future... Fans of "what if?" SF will enjoy this dystopian tale."―Publishers Weekly on Love Minus Eighty
"McIntosh manages to show how technology can both divide and unite us while delivering a highly entertaining tale."―RT Book Reviews on Love Minus Eighty
"McIntosh paints an intriguing picture of a society ruled by celebrity culture."―Daily Mail
"McIntosh manages to show how technology can both divide and unite us while delivering a highly entertaining tale."―RT Book Reviews
"[Love Minus Eighty] manages to deliver a light, romantic story without ever sacrificing its dark vision of the future."―i09
"More people should be reading Will McIntosh."―Tor.com
"Credible, compelling and relentless ... the best and most disturbing moments will stay with the reader for a long time.―Locus, on Soft Apocalypse
"A prime example of masterful storytelling--the characters are so well-drawn you feel like they're sitting beside you."―Mur Lafferty, author of The Afterlife Series, onHitchers
"An intriguing story that explores the meaning of what it is to be dead. Far from the usual 'occult' tale, this original and intelligent work well illustrates the complexity of the human soul."―Pat Whitaker, author of Antithesis and Mindset, onHitchers
"Grimly plausible.. this SF romance is a fine piece of work."―SFX
"Will McIntosh has created a highly plausible future... a good conceit with a great deal of potential."―SciFi Now
"A very intense page-turner of a book."―SFCrowsnest
"[A] heartfelt, funny, and often infuriating tale of hearts in conflict in a world where, extreme advances in technology aside, people remain essentially what they are now: selfless, self-absorbed, certain, confused, generous, cruel, kind, perceptive, and blind."―SciFi
About the Author
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.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Loving the dead
By TChris
If Love Minus Eighty has a central theme, it's this: love is complicated. It's particularly complicated if you've fallen in love with a dead woman. Love Minus Eighty explores love in a light-hearted way from a variety of perspectives: characters are in love (both requited and unrequited), or want love, or are faking it, or fear it, or substitute manipulation and drama for actual love. Still, Love Minus Eighty will never be mistaken for a traditional romance novel. It's smart and funny, not trashy.
Love Minus Eighty features one of the best extrapolations of internet technology I've encountered. Will McIntosh mixes social networking with reality TV to create a medium that's both amusing and disturbing -- and utterly believable. In a future New York, the affluent live in High Town (built above the surface of old Manhattan) and wear skin-tight suits that, apart from using sensory filters to block bad smells and ugly sights, allow virtual access to others via screens that materialize in midair. Individuals who can attract enough followers at one time are rewarded with corporate sponsorship (earning money, for instance, by wearing a particular designer's boots). In its conglomeration of Facebook and Twitter and You Tube, Love Minus Eighty makes a telling point about all the people who "take time away from their own pathetic lives to watch [a self-made celebrity] live hers."
A woman named Lorelei manages to gain eight hundred viewers as she humiliates her soon-to-be-ex boyfriend, Rob Mashita. Having just watched Lorelei throw all his possessions out a window, the distracted Rob runs over a woman named Winter West. Winter dies without revivication insurance, but fortunately she's attractive, and her corpse is chosen for the bridesicle program and stored in a dating center at minus eighty. If she's very lucky, some wealthy man will pay to restore her to life, or at least awaken her for a quick chat. Out of guilt, Rob visits her from time to time, but he can't afford to restore her to consciousness for more than five minutes every few months.
Winter's death, and the possibility that she might never be revived -- or worse, that she might be thawed and buried if she proves to be unprofitable -- is at the heart of an engaging story. Although Love Minus Eighty is in essence a romantic comedy, it makes some serious points about the value and the downside of social networking, as well as the corporate tendency to place a monetary value on human life. It also delves into philosophy, asking the timeless question: "What's more real: what you think you are, or what external, objective reality tells you you are?" Just how real is virtual reality?
If you're looking for "hard" science fiction that explains how things work -- how death is cheated, how floating screens manage to pop into existence -- you won't find it here. That didn't bother me because the novel has the sort of tongue-in-cheek attitude that suggests it isn't meant to be taken seriously. The story's focus is on people rather than technology. The characters aren't multifaceted -- there is a clear division between likable and unlikable characters -- but that's forgivable in a comic novel. Love Minus Eighty doesn't require much analytical thinking (overthinking the story would probably destroy it), but the novel encourages empathy for its love-challenged characters, provokes easy laughter, and stimulates discussion about the future of social networking.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A wonderful blend of literary and science fictional elements
By Carl V. Anderson
In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come. 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.
Author Will McIntosh's new novel, Love Minus Eighty, is the book you give to your friends in hopes of igniting a passion for science fiction. With its focus on deeply connected interpersonal relationships, the novel draws in the literary fiction reader and with its ever-present science fictional elements it also holds a strong attraction for fans of genre fiction.
Worldbuilding? This world is already built. With a deft touch Will McIntosh has imagined a highly-interactive future that is built so solidly on the foundation of our present internet-driven, social-media-obsessed culture that it succeeds in being both imaginative and accessible. The oft-despised info dump is non-existent. This future and the characters who inhabit it are initially quite shallow, but as circumstances stir the waters McIntosh plumbs the depths of several interesting characters. The reader will find themselves having conflicting emotions regarding various characters as the story unfolds, making the act of reading Love Minus Eighty an engaging experience.
In my review of the January 2013 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction I mentioned that Will McIntosh was "fast becoming one of those short story authors whose name on the cover will make me buy a magazine". Love Minus Eighty has made me want to read everything the author has ever written.
If you appreciate novels about the complexity of relationships, featuring a variety of interesting characters-and just so happen to get excited about slick technological advances-Love Minus Eighty will not disappoint.
What follows is an entirely non-spoiler review. If you haven't already rushed off to your favorite internet site or local bookstore to purchase a copy of Love Minus Eighty, I would caution you to avoid the temptation to read the cover copy or any description of the book. The opening quote for this review was culled from the Amazon description, heavily edited to remove anything that would spoil reading experience.
In Will McIntosh's future, those rich enough and/or fortunate enough to have good insurance can pay to have themselves revived after death, time and time again. While this medical advancement does not lead to immortality, it does extend life for a very long time. This future Earth is no less dominated by big corporations than our present, and one company in particular has capitalized on this advancement by creating a service whereby women who meet a certain level of attractiveness, but cannot afford to have themselves revived, can opt for a second chance at life by being a part of an expensive dating service. Unaffectionately dubbed the "bridesicle" program, woman are kept cryogenically frozen, their minds and faces awoken to consciousness for brief windows of time when rich men and women can afford to pay to "date" them in order to determine compatibility. If a bridesicle is lucky enough, she will find herself revived by her new spouse.
Will McItosh's future also showcases the advancement of technology to the point where those who can afford to do so wear fully interactive systems which overlay the mundane world and allow the wearer full access to the world at large. Imagine being able to have your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. audience and all the internet access that you could want surrounding you at all times and you will get some idea of the immersion of our lives into technology that McIntosh has imagined. It sounds both exciting and horrifying, doesn't it? Will McIntosh plays with these feelings throughout the novel to create an inspired view of the future that is both fanciful and plausible at the same time.
What makes Love Minus Eighty such a treat is that those tantalizing science fictional elements are fully present throughout the story while allowing the majority of the novel to focus on the characters, which hearkens back to earlier comments about spoilers. Love Minus Eighty follows the alternating viewpoints of three main characters, one of whom is part of the bridesicle program. We experience this future through the eyes of Rob, Veronika and Mina but at the same time we are introduced to several other characters all of whom become more real and tangible as the story unfolds. Early on in the story Rob is involved in a life-changing event that is the catalyst for everything that happens afterward and descriptions I have read quickly point out that event. As it happens early in the novel it might be argued that this is not a "spoiler", but for my money I enjoyed going into the novel with no clue where it would lead.
Though each chapter is revealed through the eyes of one of these three main protagonists, the larger cast of Love Minus Eighty is drawn into a complex web of relationships that bring them into contact with one another. This creates the interesting phenomenon of seeing the characters through different eyes, allowing the reader to form and re-form opinions about each character as their lives intersect. Often throughout the story the reader will find their opinions of characters challenged. You might be rooting for someone one minute and then writing them off as hopelessly self-obsessed the next. In a novel about relationships it is not surprising that hopes and expectations will arise as to which characters may end up together when all is said and done and it is a credit to the storytelling ability of Will McIntosh that those expectations grow and change throughout the novel.
The only complaint to be leveled at Love Minus Eighty is a feeling that things were rushed at the end. At a little over 400 pages, there is adequate space to tell an involved, fully-realized story and Will McIntosh does this, leaving the reader with a good deal of closure. There is no feeling of being cheated at the end. However, the climactic events read as if there was some hurry to bring things to a close with no apparent reason as to why this would be the case. Please do not misunderstand. This is not one of those novels that surges ahead with great promise only to see the wheels come off at the end. There is no doubt that Will McIntosh knew where he wanted to take the story and he brought it there intact. It is simply this reviewer's opinion that a little more time could have been taken with the climax and denouement.
Love Minus Eighty comes highly recommended. You will care about these characters, or at the very least some of these characters, and will find your imagination stimulated by Will McIntosh's vision of the future. There are books that you pick up and do not want to put down. Love Minus Eighty is one of those books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Science fiction that Transcends science fiction
By ljcrane
I am not normally a reader of science fiction, but I found myself fascinated by the environment Will McIntosh creates in this book and the individual stories that his characters develop. The environment and each character are introduced in a very low key fashion and in such a casual way that you find yourself accepting of everything as perfectly normal and logical even though, in actuality, it's all wildly different from anything we know today as "normal". It's the mark of a good storyteller if you get drawn into the story and into the lives of the people in the story. McIntosh does this in such a subtle way that you don't realize that it's become a "page turner" until you're thoroughly hooked. It becomes very important to know what's going to happen next, and it never becomes predictable. A thoroughly good read, and I'd love to see it turned into a miniseries or a movie, so I could see and visually experience this futuristic "normal" world.
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