Little Eyes: A Novel

"Little Eyes supposes a world that is our world, 5 minutes from now. It is a place with all our recognizable horrors, all our comforts and sweetnesses, as familiar (as if anything could be familiar these days) as yesterday’s shoes. It then introduces one small thing — one little change, one product, one tweaked application of a totally familiar technology — and tracks the ripples of chaos that it creates. In this case, that single application is the kentucki: basically a Furby with a webcam and a single link to another human being somewhere in the world. One person owns the toy/pet, the other person controls it and sees through its eyes. Think for just a moment the kind of joy and the kind of horror something like that would create. Then read Little Eyes and see how whatever it was that you imagined was just the beginning of how awful it could be."