★★★☆☆
(SF) A teenage girl wants to stay on the extrasolar planet she’s grown up on, not move back to Mars with her mom. (5,433 words; Time: 18m)
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"A Square of Flesh, a Cube of Steel," by Phoebe Barton [bio] (edited by Trevor Quachri), appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact issue 09-10|19, published on August 16, 2019 by Penny Publications.
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Review: 2019.479 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: To earn the right to stay on La Mancha, Felicity needs to show she’s mature. Throwing fits and running away are the exact wrong thing to do, but abandoning her attempt to run away in order to save a life qualifies. At the end, she deserves to stay.
Con: The stakes here are really, really low. And is spending the rest of her life inside an exosuit really that much of a victory?
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Pro: To earn the right to stay on La Mancha, Felicity needs to show she’s mature. Throwing fits and running away are the exact wrong thing to do, but abandoning her attempt to run away in order to save a life qualifies. At the end, she deserves to stay.
Con: The stakes here are really, really low. And is spending the rest of her life inside an exosuit really that much of a victory?
Other Reviews: Search Web
Phoebe Barton Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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