Deleca: Life By Proxy

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.

Immersive soap operas where you're the star...

A simulated Heaven that eliminates the need for a life of virtue...

AI "parents" that raise children so you don't have to.

But if all their experiences are simulated, are they really living?