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Book of Internet Stories
A short story collection bringing together classic names from the past 30 years of science fiction; pitching best-selling names from the crime world with the newest names in noir fiction; and finally stirring in the most exciting and innovative young fiction writers.
- GenresShort StoriesFiction
320 pages, Paperback
First published November 16, 2000
About the author
Maxim Jakubowski
284 books163 followersMaxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, and science fiction writer and critic.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
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March 31, 2015As most collections of short stories, this one also has its better and worse stories. However, what I think makes it a worthwhile read is that all stories were written to order in the year 2000 and they all deal with the internet in one way or another. I found it interesting to observe how the perception of the internet, emails, etc. have changed in the fourteen years (the stories were written in 2000, I read the book in 2014). So, I guess most will find some stories they will like, as the authors seems to be quite different in their approaches and imagination, but I guess you will enjoy the book even more if you also look at the collection as your own sociological/historical study of the understanding of the internet.
January 3, 2023
This wasn't my cup of tea. I thought it would be factual anecdotes, but instead, it's 23 short fictional stories that have at least a partial connection to the Internet/Web/PCs. I read two stories and gave up - others may find this more enjoyable.
May 11, 2016
Review of "Is there anybody there?" by Kim Newman
This... wasn't an easy story for me to read. While I could appreciate the technological side and the humour of the situation, I far from appreciated the mystical side. As a Christian, I stay as far away from Ouija boards and anything related as possible. So to read this story took some perseverance.
Overall, the situation is amusing. A seance is being conducted, the medium trying to reach the 'other side' at the request of her client, who wishes to contact a dead fiance. For whatever reason, from 2001 an internet user called Boyd taps into the seance and becomes the de facto "ghost" communicating from the "other side". So, not much time travel, really (since this is, after all, in The Time Traveller's Almanac), as there is a... joining of times in a... spooky... manner.
I don't really have much to say on this beyond what I've said. If it weren't for my dislike of anything related to Ouija boards, this would probably have been more amusing than I already found it, and it's very clever, really. A well written story, with an excellent conclusion. But I didn't enjoy reading it.
This... wasn't an easy story for me to read. While I could appreciate the technological side and the humour of the situation, I far from appreciated the mystical side. As a Christian, I stay as far away from Ouija boards and anything related as possible. So to read this story took some perseverance.
Overall, the situation is amusing. A seance is being conducted, the medium trying to reach the 'other side' at the request of her client, who wishes to contact a dead fiance. For whatever reason, from 2001 an internet user called Boyd taps into the seance and becomes the de facto "ghost" communicating from the "other side". So, not much time travel, really (since this is, after all, in The Time Traveller's Almanac), as there is a... joining of times in a... spooky... manner.
I don't really have much to say on this beyond what I've said. If it weren't for my dislike of anything related to Ouija boards, this would probably have been more amusing than I already found it, and it's very clever, really. A well written story, with an excellent conclusion. But I didn't enjoy reading it.
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