★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement
(SF Adventure) Meena’s plan to send a tiny starship to Alpha Centauri with a downloaded copy of her own mind goes awry when the starship hits something when it’s just a fraction of the way there. (11,379 words; Time: 37m)
"Insaan Hain, Farishte Nahin," by Arula Ratnakar [bio] (edited by Neil Clarke), appeared in Clarkesworld issue 152, published on May 1, 2019.
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Review: 2019.294 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: This has the bones of a good story. A loveable family. A bold mission to the stars. A threat from Luddites. A problem to solve in space. There’s a lot of good material here.
Con: The story is ruined by the unending infodumps—even infodumps disguised as dialogue. Infodumps about things of zero importance to the story.
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Pro: This has the bones of a good story. A loveable family. A bold mission to the stars. A threat from Luddites. A problem to solve in space. There’s a lot of good material here.
Con: The story is ruined by the unending infodumps—even infodumps disguised as dialogue. Infodumps about things of zero importance to the story.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Arula Ratnakar Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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