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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.
About the Author
Will McIntosh is a science fiction and young adult author, a Hugo award winner and a winner or finalist for many other SF awards. His most recent books are THE CLASSMATE (Middle Grades, February, 2022) , and FALLER (adult Science Fiction from Tor Books) . His novels DEFENDERS and THE CLASSMATE are both currently optioned for film/TV, while LOVE MINUS EIGHTY, about women trapped in a cryogenic dating center, was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association. Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time. Originally from New York, he lives in Williamsburg, Virginia with his wife and their twins.You can follow Will on Twitter: @willmcintoshSF, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WillMcIntoshSF/? fref=tsor on his website: www.willmcintosh.net.
