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Reviewed by Stefan Vucak for Readers' Favorite
Everybody had a Personal Entertainment Device embedded in their head, and babies were routinely implanted with one. It opened a world of entertainment and communication – and control. Socratease wanted to stop the Personal Vision Corporation and its CEO, Francis Jenkins, so he kidnapped his daughter, removing her PED, and replacing it with one that gave him control over her. He wanted her to replace her father’s PED, which would have given Socratease power over the PED network. Her attempt failed and for the first time in her life, she found herself cut off from the network, able to appreciate what her senses were telling her, rather than what the network fed her. McClure, a former cop, now a Vision Enforcement Agency operative, has to confront the emerging underground that sought to disrupt the entire society that has grown dependent on PEDs, which leads to a final confrontation with Socratease.
With TV In the Head, Kevin Tao Mohs takes the reader into an interesting and a very possible future world where every person is interconnected, able to access unlimited information and entertainment, but which also allows those in authority and power to exercise almost unrestrained control over the population. It is not a new theme and in this novella Mr. Mohs gives the reader a glimpse of advantages such devices can have, but also the corollary that any powerful technology can have on a society. I found much of the material in the novella thought provoking, wishing that the plot and its characters were more fully developed, but what I did read was eminently entertaining.
