Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Commander Amanda, by R. Garcia y Robertson

[Asimov's]
★★★☆☆

(Space Opera Humor; The Family) A teenage resistance commander fights an AI that’s infected one of her ships with both a computer virus and an Ebola virus. (17,642 words; Time: 58m)

This is a cute little adventure story, but you have to have read the previous installments to make much sense out of it.

"Commander Amanda," by (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in issue 11-12|19, published on by .

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Review: 2019.621 (A Word for Authors)

Pro: It’s a pretty straight-up conflict, in which Amanda is fighting for her cause and her own life. There are great good guys, evil bad guys, lots of action, lots of tension, and even quite a few laughs.

Con: It can’t stand alone; even having read the earlier episodes, I got confused a number of times. Someone coming to this cold would be hopelessly lost.

Amanda is so powerful now that it starts to break suspension of disbelief. She’s not just the resistance; she’s the most powerful person in the Jupiter system.

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