★★★☆☆ 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 Lavie Tidhar [bio] (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction issue 01-02|19, published on December 15, 2018 by Penny Publications.
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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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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.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Lavie Tidhar Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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