★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(Dystopia) In a future world controlled by robots, two men escape and seek freedom—if they can agree on what that means. (8,276 words; Time: 27m)
"Your Multicolored Life," by Xing He [bio] (translated by Andy Dudak, edited by Neil Clarke), appeared in Clarkesworld issue 141, published on June 1, 2018.
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Pro: It was quite interesting that the robots enforced a type of inequality among the human population, so escaping from them meant entirely different things to Zhang Hua and Ruo.
Con: The ending is entirely unsatisfying, with Ruo committing suicide and Zhang dying of old age at 30. And the castration of Ruo was completely gratuitous.
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Con: The ending is entirely unsatisfying, with Ruo committing suicide and Zhang dying of old age at 30. And the castration of Ruo was completely gratuitous.
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Xing He Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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