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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I really enjoyed this. It is not erotica, per say. Very little acutal sex, however, it is more about how male-female relationships are going to change (or could change) in the future. Many of these stories had me smiling. Pick it up and enjoy! It won't take a long time to read. Just little snippets of future misbehavior.... ( ) (Amy) We snagged this book while we were in the middle of being herded out of the Barnes & Noble on Union Square by irate employees who just wanted to close the store so they could go home. It was the last score from the bargain table, and I'm so very glad we found it. It's not 100% great, but its premise - satirical vignettes from assorted authors about life in 25 years - is pretty entertaining, and all of the stories are short. Microfiction, really. Little bite-sized pieces of dystopia. Personally, I would prefer to believe we'll manage to be doing rather better in 25 years' time than these satirical visions suggest, but I did enjoy reading them anyway. ( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/zenos-library/2008/04/2003-the-future-of-misb... ) (Alistair) Probably I am the wrong target audience for this book, despite appearances; perhaps I should have found out earlier that nerve.com was "an award-winning erotic web site for the literary set", but while I'm normally interested in futurism and near-to-mid-future set stories, this book - which struck me as something of a tour of the unlovelier parts of some really fairly unchallenging, technologically and socially, futures - failed to do it for me. It may just be that my Future Shock Level is pegged somewhere in the 3.x range, but it didn't really do anything for me in the provocative and stimulating area, either. This isn't necessarily a criticism of the book per se, though; it would appeal rather more to people who need less from their hypothetical futuretech and futuresoc, I think. ( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/cerebrate/2008/05/2003-the-future-of-misbehav... ) no reviews | add a review
What is the future of sex? Some of the brightest minds writing today offer their predictions in this tantalizing anthology. Rick Moody considers the repornification of Times Square, Lisa Gabriele predicts 100 percent divorce rate, Ana Marie Cox sees the return of family values via tabloids, Jay McInerney examines female executive dominance, Walter Kirn discusses Madame President and the First Lady, and much more. With short stories, imaginative e-mail exchanges, mock memoranda, and other clever missives from 2033, the future of misbehavior has never looked so good. No library descriptions found. |
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