Customer Reviews

Cybersex

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I received this book as a gift from my non-cyber-savvy brother, and immediately assumed that it was going to be a silly, sensationalist, overwrought work of pornography. I was delighted to find I was wrong. It turned out to include some extraordinarily thoughtful fiction, several pieces of which were quite appropriately anti-cyber and humanistic. The selection are excellent, wide-ranging, often a *lot* of fun, and have provoked not only the expected lower arousal but also an unexpected and pleasing arousal of a more intellectual nature. I recommend this book.

If you can find a copy of these short stories, you will find something out of the ordinary to read. Some stories are adolesent, some are dated, but some are interesting.

I am delighted this nifty antho is doingso well. My story, "Bots," is included,and is *the first, the very first* fiction ever puiblished about IRC -- originally in 1995 in a small press mag, PUCK, and now angthologized all over. Hey, if you're reading this, check out my other books here at amazon.com! Buy em!

This book was based largely on my site www.chatropolis.com. For what it is it's a good book. I think the subject has to be experianced not read about. But I am thanked in the credits so I have to gtive it 5 stars.

Skip this one, you'll fall asleep. Most of the stories are borring, even though there are a couple of exceptions.