Playback Effect
by:
Kit Foster (author)
Karen A. Wyle (author)
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!" But what if we could see others as they see themselves?New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a...
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"O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!" But what if we could see others as they see themselves?New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer's erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others. But such recordings may carry more information than the public has realized. What will criminals learn about their victims? When a husband is wrongfully convicted of injuring his wife, how will their marriage change? And what uses will a sociopath find for recordings of the experience of death?
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780990564126 (0990564126)
ASIN: 0990564126
Publish date: 2014-12-08
Publisher: Oblique Angles Press
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Playback Effect is the fifth book I've read by Karen and it certainly didn't dissapoint. Like her other books, this one has a quite complex and intertwined plot. It also has a bit of legalese in it.The concept of this story is very interesting. What if we could record our emotional reactions to thin...