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A review by nataliya_x
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 149 by Neil Clarke
3.0
This review is for the Nebula-nominated short story Give the Family My Love by A.T. Greenblatt.
An “asthmatic anthropologist” from the future Earth ravaged by man-made disasters and climate change is the only one sent on a research mission to the alien Library where tons of knowledge are stored (and as a bonus you can get any food you want) and she gets to explore it at her leisure, while recording voice messages for her brother Saul back on Earth, the messages showing us the gloomy world she left behind.
It’s a bit twee, and a bit whiny, and the ending is both predictable and unsatisfying.
Yeah, that was obvious. Was it supposed to carry some kind of punch? Because it did not, and it fizzled.
3 average stars for a perfectly average story.
Read it here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_02_19/
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My Hugo and Nebula Awards Reading Project 2020: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3295830569
An “asthmatic anthropologist” from the future Earth ravaged by man-made disasters and climate change is the only one sent on a research mission to the alien Library where tons of knowledge are stored (and as a bonus you can get any food you want) and she gets to explore it at her leisure, while recording voice messages for her brother Saul back on Earth, the messages showing us the gloomy world she left behind.
It’s a bit twee, and a bit whiny, and the ending is both predictable and unsatisfying.
“I told you I had one last, terrible cliché and it’s the worst one of all.”Spoiler
The one where the astronaut doesn’t come home.
Yeah, that was obvious. Was it supposed to carry some kind of punch? Because it did not, and it fizzled.
3 average stars for a perfectly average story.
Read it here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_02_19/
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My Hugo and Nebula Awards Reading Project 2020: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3295830569