A problem with the digital age is the blinking ephemerality of its primary medium. Pull the plug and those bits disappear into the ether. Something needs to be done about the best online writing, to wrest it from its pixel purgatory and circulate it in analog form. Although some of these pieces have appeared in magazines and anthologies, most have only been seen by visitors to the author's Web site or by readers of various Usenet news groups. The tantalizing stories delight in confounding expectation, making them all the more compulsive.
Humid lust is balanced by online discussions and interviews.
The book is in part a response to the Communications Decency Act, which would have jeopardized the very existence of such material on the Internet.