Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Restricted Fantasies, Volume 1

  • By: Kevin Kneupper
  • Narrated by: Kristin James
  • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Restricted Fantasies, Volume 1

By: Kevin Kneupper
Narrated by: Kristin James
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

A Black Mirror-style sci-fi short story collection about the perils of our virtual reality future - and whether we're already living in it.

It's a future where you can simulate any fantasy you want. But some people want some very dark things. You can plug into your own private world. Your dreams are indistinguishable from reality. Do what you want, dream what you want, be what you want.

It sounds like a paradise. But paradise has its price. And some people's idea of paradise is everyone else's idea of hell.

Restricted Fantasies is a Black Mirror-style collection of short stories about lives lived inside and outside of virtual reality. The advent of simulated realities raises questions of philosophy and technology that drive at the core of our nature as humans-and in the tradition of classic sci-fi, the stories in this collection wrestle with these questions and with the shape of things to come.

You'll meet a child protective services agent tasked with rescuing children being raised by Neo-Nazis in an illegal simulation of their own darkest fantasies.

You'll meet a man who discovers the cheat code to our reality-and watch as it all goes horribly wrong.

You'll go on a futuristic Rumspringa with an Amish woman who lives it up in virtual reality for a few years before deciding whether to go home to the last unplugged community on Earth.

You'll peek into the lives of virtual reality addicts, aliens, and mad billionaires.

And you'll journey into Sim-Sing, a simulated prison with a very unpleasant jailer.

Whether you're a fan of classic sci-fi or not, if you've ever wondered whether the things around you are real, whether The Matrix was just a movie, and where the line is between reality and fantasy, you'll love this glimpse into a future that may yet come-and that may already be here.

©2018 Kevin Kneupper (P)2018 Kevin Kneupper
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Press Start to Play cover art
Listen to the Signal: Short Stories, Volume 1 cover art
Where the Hell Is Tesla? cover art
Steal the Stars cover art
Stasis cover art
First Meetings cover art
Horror, Humor, And Heroes cover art
The Lead Cloak cover art
Limbus, Inc. cover art
A Year in the Borderlands cover art
Bones Are White cover art
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault cover art
Off Planet cover art
Dhata Mays cover art
Queers Destroy Science Fiction! cover art
The Best of Bova, Volume 1 cover art

What listeners say about Restricted Fantasies, Volume 1

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    6
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    6
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    6
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Missing a tie in

This compendium of stories, as they were all of a similar note, would have been better with a tie in story at the end. That being said not as hard or as dark as black mirror. Or as compelling as Philip K. Dicks electric dreams. It does fill in a lighter note on audible for when I'm walking the dog.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

fenomenal!

it has been a fenomenal audiobook, narrated by a professional!!
enjoyed it to the fullest and now got me into the genre!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An engaging look at a potential digital future

A very interesting, entertaining and thought provoking anthology of stories which look at the role technology has in our lives and the kinds of virtual realities our dreams and even unconscious desires could lead us to. The characters and worlds vary immensely; from an Amish woman's experience in the digital eqiivalent of rumspringa, to stark premonitions of a future in which we are all plugged into simulations.

The narrator does an excellent job of bringing the work to life, doing equally well with both male and female characters of very different types, creating a unique character with each.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

hm

not good as tv series "black mirror" had some cool concepts. stories keep repeating some idea

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!