Monday, October 10, 2016

Project Extropy, by Dominica Phetteplace

[Asimov's]
★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement

(Near-Future SF; Project Empathy) Akiko wakes up on a ship bound for San Francisco with no memory of who she is, but with the voice of "God" telling her what to do. (9,013 words; Time: 30m)

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This continues the series of stories that started with Project Empathy

"," by (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in issue 10-11|16, published on by .

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Review: 2016.747 (A Word for Authors)

There's no plot here at all; no one is trying to accomplish anything in particular--things just happen. Most of the story is told through info-dump narration, and much of that is delivering a political message. What dialogue there is is unnatural.

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1 comment (may contain spoilers):

  1. Now online:

    http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/project-extropy/

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