Saturday, June 29, 2019

Captain Zack & the Data Raiders, by Steve Rasnic Tem

[Analog]
★★★☆☆ Average

(Climate SF) Zack and his team prowl the Internet, preserving inconvenient data that other people want to delete forever. (3,426 words; Time: 11m)


"Captain Zack & the Data Raiders," by (edited by Trevor Quachri), appeared in issue 07-08|19, published on by .

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Review: 2019.362 (A Word for Authors)

Pro: The story does a nice job of illustrating the challenge of being objective about data.

Con: Carl is the protagonist, not Zack, since he’s the only one trying to achieve a goal, but we don’t really learn much about Carl, so the story isn’t very strong.

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