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peter__b's review
4.0
Short story in Stories of your life and others
This story occurs in a world where certain natural laws are based on how people used to think the world worked during biblical times, specifically the Jewish version. There are multiple concepts that are focused on with the two main ones being nomenclature and human reproduction. The former ties in with the idea of golems while the latter is somehow even more fanciful with notions of finite species reproduction and fetal development. All these aspects are explored and the consequences for each subsequent discovery move the story forward in equally interesting directions.
There's too much to actually write about, but I found it all very well written and interesting. While the content wasn't very relatable, I still found it thought-provoking in terms of more relatable or general terms. A lot of the "science" is told through dialogue, which does get a bit heavy at times, but I managed to follow along well enough. This was probably my favourite short story so far in the collection.
This story occurs in a world where certain natural laws are based on how people used to think the world worked during biblical times, specifically the Jewish version. There are multiple concepts that are focused on with the two main ones being nomenclature and human reproduction. The former ties in with the idea of golems while the latter is somehow even more fanciful with notions of finite species reproduction and fetal development. All these aspects are explored and the consequences for each subsequent discovery move the story forward in equally interesting directions.
There's too much to actually write about, but I found it all very well written and interesting. While the content wasn't very relatable, I still found it thought-provoking in terms of more relatable or general terms. A lot of the "science" is told through dialogue, which does get a bit heavy at times, but I managed to follow along well enough. This was probably my favourite short story so far in the collection.
izzorizzo's review
3.0
There were some stories I really enjoyed, but some were too scientific for me to be able to follow. An anthology on endangered species is something I haven't come across before.
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