★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(Virtual Reality) In a VR simulation, a starship AI keeps reenacting scenes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But why? (3,702 words; Time: 12m)
"To a Cloven Pine," by Max Gladstone [bio] (edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe), appeared in Robots vs. Fairies (RSR review), published on January 9, 2018 by Saga Press.
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Review: 2018.152 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: Ariel (for the narrator must be Ariel) eventually manages to escape from the loop its been in ever since whatever happened when it encountered “the witch.”
Con: This sort of fake-scientific language can be very poetic, but it’s very tiresome to read.
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Pro: Ariel (for the narrator must be Ariel) eventually manages to escape from the loop its been in ever since whatever happened when it encountered “the witch.”
Con: This sort of fake-scientific language can be very poetic, but it’s very tiresome to read.
Other Reviews: Search Web, GoodReads.com
Max Gladstone Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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