★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(Medical SF) If you get sick (which you won’t) you probably won’t get infected with something hard to diagnose and hard to cure. Or get treatments worse than the disease. (857 words; Time: 02m)
"This Will Not Happen to You," by Marissa Lingen [bio] (edited by Dominik Parisien), appeared in Uncanny Magazine issue 24, published on September 1, 2018.
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Review: 2018.513 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: Well, on the bright side, it does look like you survived both the disease and the treatment.
Con: Although there is a kind of story here, there’s no character development. There seems to be a very strong message of “medical treatment is inexact—bad things can still happen” but I’m not sure what the point is.
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Pro: Well, on the bright side, it does look like you survived both the disease and the treatment.
Con: Although there is a kind of story here, there’s no character development. There seems to be a very strong message of “medical treatment is inexact—bad things can still happen” but I’m not sure what the point is.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 24)
Marissa Lingen Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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