Love Minus Eighty

"Imagine a Jane Austen novel set in one of Philip K. Dick’s media-saturated worlds, and you’ve got the idea behind Love Minus Eighty. Will McIntosh’s terrific novel is set in a near-future world where the rich wear full-body computers and are constantly surrounded by virtual “followers” who hang onto their every conversation — while also rating them for hotness and intrigue. While an online dating coach yearns tragically for her colleague in a series of funny, light scenes, a more sinister story unfolds alongside. A cryogenics company creates a “bridesicle” program, where women who die young and beautiful are frozen until they can ensnare a man willing to marry them and pay for their revival and medical repairs."