★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
(Post-Human) A human-built AI that operates a spaceship headed for the Trappist system hasn’t heard from home in 28,716 years, but it has decided to broadcast its story. (6,406 words; Time: 21m)
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"Vespers," by J.M. Ledgard [bio] (edited by Wade Roush), appeared in Twelve Tomorrows 5 (RSR review), published on May 25, 2018 by MIT Technology Review.
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Review: 2018.635 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: It does a decent job of making it clear just how horrible it would be to drift through empty space all alone for endless centuries.
Con: The ravings of an AI drifting through empty space make for really dull reading.
It makes absolutely no sense for humanity to launch a probe that won’t arrive for 100,000 years.
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Pro: It does a decent job of making it clear just how horrible it would be to drift through empty space all alone for endless centuries.
Con: The ravings of an AI drifting through empty space make for really dull reading.
It makes absolutely no sense for humanity to launch a probe that won’t arrive for 100,000 years.
Other Reviews: Search Web, GoodReads.com
J.M. Ledgard Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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