★★★☆☆ Average
(Slipstream Thriller) Jacinta enjoys her career working for a Russian scam artist, but lately a pair of talking cats are pestering her. (5,850 words; Time: 19m)
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"The Realitarians," by James Warner [bio] (edited by Andy Cox), appeared in Interzone issue 281, published on May 15, 2019 by TTA Press.
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Pro: This is pretty much the story of how Jacinta’s crime career fell apart. It’s pretty obvious from the start that that’s what’s going to happen, but there’s some fun it watching it “unravel,” as Slim says.
Con: The cats seem irrelevant. This reads like a mainstream thriller that someone converted to genre by turning two characters into cats.
Jacinta is a very unsatisfying protagonist. She has almost no agency in this story; she has no real goals other than waiting for Nestor, and she makes no real effort to escape.
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Pro: This is pretty much the story of how Jacinta’s crime career fell apart. It’s pretty obvious from the start that that’s what’s going to happen, but there’s some fun it watching it “unravel,” as Slim says.
Con: The cats seem irrelevant. This reads like a mainstream thriller that someone converted to genre by turning two characters into cats.
Jacinta is a very unsatisfying protagonist. She has almost no agency in this story; she has no real goals other than waiting for Nestor, and she makes no real effort to escape.
Other Reviews: Search Web
James Warner Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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