Rating: 1,
Needs Improvement
Sephine and the Leviathan, by Jack Schouten, appeared in the July 2016 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 118), published July 1, 2016.
Mini-Review (click to view--possible spoilers)
Sephine doesn't do much of this adventure herself; one AI or another leads her through it by the nose.
The narration is pretty bad--heavy with editorializing.
The science in this story is really atrocious. Just for one example, the Vierendelen orbits the planet "outside its gravity well" gets hit by a missile that knocks it into the "pull of the gravity well" which causes it to crash. The description of decrypting an encrypted message is just as bad.
The narration is pretty bad--heavy with editorializing.
The science in this story is really atrocious. Just for one example, the Vierendelen orbits the planet "outside its gravity well" gets hit by a missile that knocks it into the "pull of the gravity well" which causes it to crash. The description of decrypting an encrypted message is just as bad.
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