Imagine a future with cyberspace...without virtual reality...without AIs and simulations...and without the Web. What might we have instead of the net? What might lie on the other side of our information age? What might we see if we were to walk down a road not taken?

"Live Without a Net" is a collection of eighteen stories from some of today's top talents, visions of futures near and far, glimpses of alternative histories, other dimensions, and more-anything goes, but in each story one or more of the contrivances of the cyberspace era has been replaced by something unexpected and strange. Here then is science fiction unplugged, its wires cut, set free to be Live Without a Net.

Explore a future without a net in these stories of alternatives to the "information age" by Stephen Baxter · David Brin . Paul Di Filippo . Pat Cadigan . John Grant . David Hutchinson . Alex C Irvine . Terry McGarry . John Meaney . Paul Melko . Mike Resnick and Kay Kenyon . Chris Roberson . Adam Roberts . Rudy Rucker . S M Stirling . Del Stone, Jr . Charles Stross . Matthew Sturges . Michael Swanwick