@booklet {4819, title = {"Nevermore"}, howpublished = {Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love}, year = {1997}, note = {

Rpt. in Asimov\’s Science Fiction 22.7 (271) (July 1998): 14-22, 24-32; in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1998), 488-504 with an Editor\’s note on 488; and in Isaac Asimov\’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 202-34 with a note on 202; and in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013, an ebook with an \“Afterword\” by the author.

}, month = {1997}, pages = {309-31}, publisher = {HarperPrism}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Virtual reality becomes standard, and most people seem to live in it rather in the \"foreal\", which has become run down. During life people keep records of all their actions so that they can live on in virtual reality after death. The story focuses on an artist who prefers to live in the \"foreal\".

}, keywords = {Male author, Northern Ireland author}, author = {Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956)}, editor = {Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018)} }