Love and Other Punishments

From the author of Children of the Folded Valley and Peaceful Quiet Lives, a gripping selection of dystopian science fiction novellas and short stories.A journalist investigates a company manufacturing nightmare suppressing nanotech for children.A civil servant suspects terrorists hacking the Driverless Vehicle Network and crashing vehicles may be an inside job.A man and woman conduct an illegal workplace affair, finding ingenious ways to fool corporate brain monitoring.All these stories and more in this compelling collection of futuristic satire, technological speculation, alternative realities, and melancholy obsessions. Includes The Thought Improvement Programme, Driverless, Bleed with Me, The Traffic Warden, Sweet Dreams, Apocalypse 1983, and Love and Other Punishments.