★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(SF) The narrator completes an interview to get qualified to communicate with aliens. (1,339 words; Time: 04m)
"Four-Point Affective Calibration," by Bogi Takács [bio] (edited by John Joseph Adams), appeared in Lightspeed Magazine issue 93, published on February 1, 2018.
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Pro: It’s an interesting idea that autistic people might make the best ambassadors to aliens simply because they’d be less likely to assume they understood the aliens’ emotional responses. The narrator pooh-poohs that idea, but it's worth thinking about.
Con: It’s hard to make a story out of anything this short, and, in this case, we don’t get much beyond a rant from the narrator about how unhappy their life has been.
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Con: It’s hard to make a story out of anything this short, and, in this case, we don’t get much beyond a rant from the narrator about how unhappy their life has been.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 93)
Bogi Takács Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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