★★★☆☆ Average
(Time Travel) It’s more a parallel multiverse than real time travel. All you can do is relive the latest fifteen minutes. Naturally the government uses it to torture people without them knowing it. Over and over, if need be. (2,825 words; Time: 09m)
"Fifteen Minutes from Now," by Erin Cashier [bio] (edited by C.C. Finlay), appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue 01-02|19, published on December 27, 2018 by Spilogale Inc.
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Pro: I liked how the details gradually came out during the lecture. Like the fact that the government is a dictatorship now. Or that the torturer uses really brutal methods sometimes.
Con: It’s mostly a long lecture that seems like it would have zero hope of changing anyone’s mind.
It’s not clear why you can only go back fifteen minutes.
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Pro: I liked how the details gradually came out during the lecture. Like the fact that the government is a dictatorship now. Or that the torturer uses really brutal methods sometimes.
Con: It’s mostly a long lecture that seems like it would have zero hope of changing anyone’s mind.
It’s not clear why you can only go back fifteen minutes.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Erin Cashier Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
I would think that learning his son is being tortured too might convince him to talk.
ReplyDeleteAlthough does that apply to this sort of "virtual torture" that leaves no mark and which the victim doesn't even remember?
DeleteWell, since the option is not remember birthmark removal or dead, maybe?
DeleteAuthor also writes urban fantasy as Cassie Alexander.
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