A Billion Eves
Sep. 1st, 2007 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomI found the 2007 Hugo Award novella winner, Robert Reed's A Billion Eves, available online. So I read it.
It squicked me a lot, and I'm a guy, who's never had to deal with this stuff personally. By the end, I found myself hoping that the fruit of this fucked-up psuedo-Mormon colonial tree would encounter explorers and colonizers from Old Earth - more organized and, with the benefit of further research into dimensional travel, capable of reliable two-way communication with home - who would straighten things out and/or cut it off at the root. I also found myself thinking maybe it would have been better in the long run if that first group of abductees, and their sleazebag of an abductor, had simply died out.
It's good SF if it makes you angry, right?
It squicked me a lot, and I'm a guy, who's never had to deal with this stuff personally. By the end, I found myself hoping that the fruit of this fucked-up psuedo-Mormon colonial tree would encounter explorers and colonizers from Old Earth - more organized and, with the benefit of further research into dimensional travel, capable of reliable two-way communication with home - who would straighten things out and/or cut it off at the root. I also found myself thinking maybe it would have been better in the long run if that first group of abductees, and their sleazebag of an abductor, had simply died out.
It's good SF if it makes you angry, right?
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Date: 2007-09-02 04:40 pm (UTC)