Love minus eighty - Will McIntosh

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND DEATH, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

The words were gentle strokes, drawing her awake.
"Hello. Hello there."
She felt the light on her eyelids, and knew that if she opened her eyes they would sting, and she would have to shade them with her palm and let the light bleed through a crack.
"Feel like talking?" A man's soft voice.
And then her mind cleared enough to wonder: who was this man at her bedside?
She tried to sigh, but no breath came. Her eyes flew open in alarm.

The Minus Eighty . . .

Where millionaires browse the catalogue of icy women, judging on beauty ratings and revival costs.

Where a freezer's gentle hum plays the background symphony for the world's most expensive first dates.

Where death is only the beginning.

Love Minus Eighty is a disquieting vision of our romantic future, as hopeful as it is horrifying, by a Hugo Award-winning author.

Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose latest novel, Defenders, has been optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film. His previous novel, Love Minus Eighty, was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association, and was on both Io9.com and NPR.org's lists of the best SF novels of 2013. His debut novel, Soft Apocalypse, was a finalist for a Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Compton Crook Award. Along with four novels, he has published fifty short stories in venues such as Asimov's, Lightspeed, and Science Fiction and Fantasy: Best of the Year. Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time. He lives in Williamsburg with his wife and their twins. You can follow him on Twitter @willmcintoshSF, or on his website, www.willmcintosh.net.

A clever premise, brilliantly executed . . . chilling and touching at the same time
Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

McIntosh paints an intriguing picture of a society ruled by celebrity culture
DAILY MAIL

Not only a complex, affecting and surprising love story, but a
perceptive critique of a society mired in addictive technology and
celebrity status
GUARDIAN

Speculative fiction at its most personal and powerful . . . Intriguing, quirky, perversely charming and definitely affecting
KIRKUS REVIEWS

McIntosh intertwines three futuristic stories about individuals looking for love . . . The author's high-tech New York City is both fascinating and plausible . . . McIntosh manages to show how technology can both divide and unite us while delivering a highly entertaining tale
RT BOOK REVIEWS

Disquieting, hopeful, yet horrifying
DAILY EXAMINER (Australia)

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

McIntosh's gripping and sweetly moving tale is anything but a pile of romance clichs...a contender for awards'
ARC

Love Minus Eighty has award winner written all over it
SF CROWSNEST

Casts a clear and knowing eye on our current society, from the best viewpoint of all: the future
Kim Stanley Robinson

Immerses you in a world that is a surprisingly charming cross between Philip K. Dick and Jane Austen . . . manages to deliver a light, romantic story without ever sacrificing its dark vision of the future
io9

A beautiful, emotionally resonant tale . . . a dark, impactful novel
TOR.COM

This is a book with plenty to say about the way we live now and a witty and engaging manner of saying it. With its mixture of assured storytelling, clever ideas and a half-amused, half-tender portrayal of alienation in a fantastical big city milieu, Love Minus Eighty is an excellent example of character-driven, thematically rich SF, and even those usually frosty to the genre should get something out of it.
BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY

The future world is delicately drawn, the characters all too human, and the science is easy. For both romantic and action story lovers everywhere
Maxim J. Jakubowski, Lovereading.co.uk