Sunday, April 2, 2017

Your Lying Eyes, by Jack Mcdevitt

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(Near-Future SF) The narrator learns that a brilliant engineer has developed a consumer technology that will reveal when anyone is lying. Is it really a good thing to release this to the public? (2,630 words; Time: 08m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

"Your Lying Eyes," by (edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts), appeared in (RSR review), published on by .

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Pro: The story is well-told, with clean narration and natural dialogue.

Con: The narrator is an idiot; what one person invented, another can also invent. Killing the first inventor only delays things.

The uncertainty at the end is odd; he didn’t murder anyone. All he did was do nothing and let the man die. Bad, still, but not the same thing.

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