Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future — Michael Swanwick

Imagine a future without cyberspace...
without the Web or virtual reality....
What would happen in an alternate Information Age?
What would you do? What would you fear?
What wouldn't you know?
You can't imagine.

Today's top masters of speculative fiction offer visions of futures near and far, alternative histories, and journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the end of a different tunnel? What would we find in dimensions where the inevitable vastness of cyberspace has been replaced by things surprising and strange? Welcome to science fiction unplugged, and set free to be...

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