★★★☆☆ Average
(Slipstream) Everyone has a timer on their wrists counting down the years, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until they meet their soul mates. Fiona’s just 24, and her timer says she’ll have to wait 40 years. So what to do until then? (7,608 words; Time: 25m)
"Nitrate Nocturnes," by Ruth Joffre [bio] (edited by John Joseph Adams), appeared in Lightspeed Magazine issue 95, published on April 1, 2018.
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Pro: We feel sorry for Fiona and excited when it looks like she’ll beat the system after all. It’s nice that she ends up with someone to be happy with.
Con: She doesn’t do anything that affects the outcome, which makes her a very weak protagonist.
There’s never any good explanation for why her timer was so irregular.
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Con: She doesn’t do anything that affects the outcome, which makes her a very weak protagonist.
There’s never any good explanation for why her timer was so irregular.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 95)
Ruth Joffre Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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