★★★☆☆ Average
(Dying Earth) Luna is an orca, and Lee loves chatting with her, even though he knows it’s time they both moved on. (4,645 words; Time: 15m)
"Luna," by David Samuel Hudson [bio] (edited by Angie Dell and Joey Eschrich), appeared in Everything Change Volume II (RSR review), published on January 25, 2019 by Arizona State University.
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Review: 2019.255 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: The story’s about Lee more than Luna. The project has dwindled to tracking just one single animal, and his wife wants them to move to a new project in Alaska. Staying around isn’t doing Luna any good either, so he finally helps them both when he urges her to go find her mate and see northern waters.
Con: It’s a depressing, hopeless piece. The end is coming for humans too, so people are giving up on having children. Lee is just moving from one hopeless project to another one.
Animal communication as described in the story is pretty much a fantasy. After decades of attempts at it, the research suggests that no animal (besides us) has enough language ability for this to ever be possible.
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Pro: The story’s about Lee more than Luna. The project has dwindled to tracking just one single animal, and his wife wants them to move to a new project in Alaska. Staying around isn’t doing Luna any good either, so he finally helps them both when he urges her to go find her mate and see northern waters.
Con: It’s a depressing, hopeless piece. The end is coming for humans too, so people are giving up on having children. Lee is just moving from one hopeless project to another one.
Animal communication as described in the story is pretty much a fantasy. After decades of attempts at it, the research suggests that no animal (besides us) has enough language ability for this to ever be possible.
Other Reviews: Search Web, GoodReads.com
David Samuel Hudson Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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