In the near future, all the cool High school kids wear "Kurzwailers" on their wrists, which play music that's customized for them alone. Aisha's family is too poor for her to have one, but she does have a gift for creating music. (2,700 words; Time: 09m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: SFEP"Songs in the Key of You," by Sarah Pinsker [bio] (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction issue 01|15, published on November 3, 2014 by Penny Publications.
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Pro: Sweet little story that moves directly from Aisha alone and needy to Aisha successful and with friends.
Con: Bryn has no obvious reason to be nice to her, and yet he's the real solution to her problems; she doesn't do much of anything to help herself.
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Con: Bryn has no obvious reason to be nice to her, and yet he's the real solution to her problems; she doesn't do much of anything to help herself.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 01|15)
Sarah Pinsker Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
what a strange premise, even by late 2014 an older smartphone can do all that recording and playing soundbite without any issue at all, perhaps if the story was set in the late 90s it would make a lot more sense for me...
ReplyDeleteAlso, a whole class playing their soundbite at the same time? sounds like a painful chaos to me, any reasonable school would had ban such device in no time :D