★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(SF Adventure) Delilah is sure she can save the crew of her starship from the alien’s who’ve taken everyone over, if only she could get out of the brig. (2,736 words; Time: 09m)
"Zen," by Eliot Fintushel [bio] (edited by Andy Cox), appeared in Interzone issue 274, published on March 15, 2018 by TTA Press.
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Pro: The setup is good; the ship infested with aliens that have taken over the minds of the rest of the crew, and with Delilah unable to be sure what’s real and what’s not.
Con: It’s a Zen story, so perhaps it’s unreasonable to complain that it’s not clear what happened at the end, but it’s not clear what happened at the end.
The narration and dialogue are rather unnatural. Part of that seems to be for effect, but, if so, it didn’t work for me.
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Con: It’s a Zen story, so perhaps it’s unreasonable to complain that it’s not clear what happened at the end, but it’s not clear what happened at the end.
The narration and dialogue are rather unnatural. Part of that seems to be for effect, but, if so, it didn’t work for me.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 274)
Eliot Fintushel Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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