Sunday, December 30, 2018

Neom, by Lavie Tidhar

[Asimov's]
★★★☆☆ Average

(SF Vignette) Toward the end of the 21st Century, a cleaning woman in a sprawling experimental city in Saudi Arabia struggles to make ends meet. (3,225 words; Time: 10m)


"Neom," by (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in issue 01-02|19, published on by .

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Review: 2019.030 (A Word for Authors)

Pro: This is a vignette, so, by design, there is no story here; it merely shows us a slice of life in a city of the future. As such, it’s a very believable future.

Con: The future is so believable that the city isn’t very interesting, nor is the protagonist.

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