Deleca: Life By Proxy
by Joshua Renneke
Price: Free! 12300 words.
Published on December 6, 2011. Fiction.
These short stories are set in a near future where people live their lives almost completely through virtual-reality.
Three main corporations have formed an alliance and bought out the debt-ridden government.
With nearly every job performed by bots, citizens spend their lives in a virtual-reality device called a VNi chair.
But if their entire life experience is simulated, are they really living?