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ronsos's review against another edition
2.0
The writing was solid, but the story didn't interest me.
snazel's review against another edition
Beautiful, but I don't really know what happened.
scamp1234's review against another edition
3.0
My favorite ended up being the James Patrick Kelly reprint. All the others were ok. The non fiction work on Druids and the interview with David Drake were both interesting.
macthekat's review against another edition
4.0
As the title suggest this story was about memory, but perhaps more accurately it is about the act of remembering as a society or choosing to forget. Throughout the story it is never said what it is that that should be remembered or forgotten. The event is before our PoV character remembers. I think that is a really powerful move by the author – not to reveal what the event was. The reader just knows that it was different before, something happened and we slowly learns how it is now. That the PoV character, Adventure Boy, is not in fact human, he is an alternative, an artificial person. Not born but made, somehow. Another piece of worldbuilding that er just hinted at, not explained. The story is totally devoid of exposition, we have to figure everything out our self. I am not sure anyone are human in this story, there are Makers and Alternatives and the metal men. I think it really works. Nobodies but the Mechanical’s appearances is ever mentioned in the story. The Father’s clothing is described but I have no idea what colour his hair or skin is or for that matter if he is thin or fat. That of course leave the images entirely to the reader’s imagination.
Read the rest of my review: http://www.mackat.dk/book/2013/12/day-13-story-13-of-alternate-adventures-and-memory/
Merged review:
As with most of Clark World's stories the writing was beautiful. It is a story about art and the bargains we might be willing to make when inspiration is low or the career is not what we imagined. The muse is a really harsh mistress in this story - as she should be.
Read my full review: http://wp.me/p40HVI-c0
Read the rest of my review: http://www.mackat.dk/book/2013/12/day-13-story-13-of-alternate-adventures-and-memory/
Merged review:
As with most of Clark World's stories the writing was beautiful. It is a story about art and the bargains we might be willing to make when inspiration is low or the career is not what we imagined. The muse is a really harsh mistress in this story - as she should be.
Read my full review: http://wp.me/p40HVI-c0
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