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Overview
Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world
Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications take over the outside world.
But when the robots that take care of the necessities in the dirty outside world start glitching, Salipa must figure out what it means to truly live if they can never return to the world they once knew.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781250247841 |
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Publisher: | Tom Doherty Associates |
Publication date: | 11/13/2019 |
Sold by: | Macmillan |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 32 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Brenda Peynado's stories have won an O. Henry Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a Dana Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic, a Vermont Studio Center Residency, and other prizes. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, Daily Science Fiction, The Sun, The Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and other journals.
She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches screenwriting, fiction writing, and worldbuilding at the University of Central Florida.
She is the author of The Kite Maker, a Tor.com Original.