(AI SF) Zerith is a new AI, and he’s required to spend some time in a class of human students. (1,800 words; Time: 06m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
"Integration," by John Eckelkamp [bio] (edited by Joe Stech), appeared in CompellingSF issue 06-07|17, published on June 28, 2017.
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Pro: Zerith comes across as a rather strange but ultimately adorable human child. This is the story of how he became a person, and that’s moving enough to make up for a lot of the story’s shortcomings.
Con: There’s no action in this story whatsoever. It’s almost literally about watching grass (well, a bean) grow.
There’s way too much technobabble. The first few paragraphs are so bad I at first thought it was going to be a caricature.
It’s hard to believe Zerith didn’t already have access to all sorts of details about beans, insects, etc.
There are lots of annoying little errors: e.g. beans are prolate, not oblate.
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Con: There’s no action in this story whatsoever. It’s almost literally about watching grass (well, a bean) grow.
There’s way too much technobabble. The first few paragraphs are so bad I at first thought it was going to be a caricature.
It’s hard to believe Zerith didn’t already have access to all sorts of details about beans, insects, etc.
There are lots of annoying little errors: e.g. beans are prolate, not oblate.
Other Reviews: Search Web
John Eckelkamp Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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