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by Ted Chiang

Deb's books rated it

14 years ago

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I like the ideas, but not the execution. I would love to see it fleshed out, seems more of a sketch or outline than an entire story. It's only 150 pages and part of those are illustrations. The worst part is the ending, in my opinion there just isn't one. It just stops.

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Readundant rated it

14 years ago

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Remember virtual pets? Those little electronic animals that lived in keychains, and you had to feed them and clean up their poop and they were really neat for about two weeks, before everyone* realized that pressing buttons to pretend to feed and play with something is totally boring?*except Japanes...

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Another fine mess rated it

15 years ago

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Chiang's written some of the best science-fiction short stories of the last fifteen years. But his high-concept and hard-science riffs avoid the gee-whiz and the jaded snarl, instead finding a melancholic chord underlying the genre. His stories repeatedly return to loss. Each new tech (or fantast...

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Maggie the Ranter rated it

56 years ago

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I love reading Ted Chiang's stuff...it always seems to punch me right in the gut, in a good way. He sets up what seems to be little piece of life stories, when all of a sudden the implications of what just happened kind of smack you in the face. I LOVE stories like that. Its hard to even get the po...

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Bun's Books rated it

56 years ago

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I enjoyed this novella a lot. Its a well thought out exploration of a possible near future, in which a start up company creates "digients" digital sentinents - virtual pet/companions that can learn, and offers them for sale on an online platform. The story of how the digients learn and grow and in...

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