Love Minus Eighty, Will McIntosh
Love Minus Eighty, Will McIntosh
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Love Minus Eighty

Author: Will McIntosh

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins, Eileen Stevens, Ali Ahn

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 06/11/2013

Synopsis

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.

About Will McIntosh

Will McIntosh is a Hugo Award winner and a winner or finalist for twelve other science fiction/fantasy awards. His most recent books include Unbreakable, a dystopian novel with a twist you will not see coming; Faller, published by Tor Books; and a middle grade book (ages nine and up) titled Watchdog, which is being developed as an animated TV series by the creators of the How to Train Your Dragon TV series, Dragons: Race to the Edge. His previous book, Defenders, was optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film, while Love Minus Eighty was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association-RUSA, and has also been optioned for a TV series. Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time, and still occasionally teaches Introductory Psychology at the
College of William and Mary. He lives in Williamsburg with his wife and their twins.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie on September 12, 2017

Let me be the first to say what we're all thinking: what a terrible cover. It's not even a terrible cover, it's a cover that is an absence of a cover. Every time I look away from this cover, I forget what I just saw. I actually picked up this novel not long after it came out on the recommendation of......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on July 20, 2019

For a book that is pretty much all a romance, it's full of great science, tech, and outright horror. The titular theme refers to corpse dating. It's kinda like a half-way point for necrophiliacs, old-rich-geezers, and tortured musicians to pine over pretty dead women. And when I mean pretty, I mean......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 23, 2013

I was fortunate to read an “ARC uncorrected proof not for sale” 402 pages, sent to me by friend Melody, who got it for free at the ALA conference. This book is due out on June 11th, 2013, which is more than 7 weeks away, so if anyone would like a chance to also read this in advance, please email me......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 05, 2023

Love Minus Eighty is one of my absolute favorite books I’ve read so far this year. It’s deep, emotional, passionate, balanced and incredibly absorbing. While it’s not full of wham-bam action, it’s a study of human nature, a discourse on technology (does it empower us, or take power away from us?), t......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on December 31, 2013

As a satire on the future of our ‘connected’ society, Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh seems extraordinarily prescient and quite diabolical. Wearable computers not only clothe people, but provide an instantaneous and fully-immersive link to a digital realm mediated by one’s peers. This is democrac......more

Quotes

"This is speculative fiction at its most personal and powerful, extrapolating current social and technological trends and exploring how they would affect future people... Intriguing, quirky, perversely charming and definitely affecting."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) on Love Minus Eighty

"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 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

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