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I'd managed to both hear a lot about Dark Orbit and yet retain nearly nothing about it going in. It seemed like it would be a good Virtual Speculation pick, so I threw it on the list for October. On the surface Dark Orbit is a SpecFic re-imagining of Country of the Blind (with less xenophobia). S...
Neat story, with a lot of interesting thoughts included. Overall a decent handling of blindness, though it does include the idea that blind people like to touch your face in greeting (something that most seem pretty disinclined to do so, and rather annoyed at it as continuing concept)... and it st...
(Read as part of Nebula Showcase 2013)Sets up a very nicely done world and situation: a rebellious teenage girl and her flaky, irresponsible mother, flitting around known planets at lightspeed after a political disturbance/genocide analogous to the Holocaust. (It's called the Holocide, and there's e...
I liked the protagonist's voice--she came across as authentically teenaged--but otherwise there's not much to recommend here. The writing is clumsy and the plot incoherent, full of both loose ends that never come together and anvilicious reveals. And the ending actively angered me. No, it is not the...
Bounced off the initial framing (Wild West dude, really?), which is a pity because I haven't read any SF in a while and miss it. This one isn't for me.
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