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A review by brogan7
The Shiatsung Project by Brigitte Archambault
challenging
slow-paced
1.5
Well....I can go with experimental, but in the end it has to hang together in some kind of a way...otherwise why?
The story is about a woman who lives in a futuristic scenario where she never leaves her compound, and all her needs are provided for by a nebulous, computer-like entity she interacts with over a screen on her wall. But she figures out she has a neighbour, and that she can dig a tiny hole in the concrete wall between them, so she can see that neighbour...
Honestly, it feels like the author just threw out a bunch of random ideas, never thinking about the internal logic of this world. Why does the Shiatsung want to keep all people separated? How is it worth it in terms of energy use to provide all food, objects from the outside (somewhere), without these individuals having to do anything? And then the story with the neighbour...ok if you had no human contact since childhood you would be feral, first of all, you might have trouble relating to anyone at all...so to imagine ???? the scenes with her and the neighbour, it's just sort of cringy, actually.
The story is about a woman who lives in a futuristic scenario where she never leaves her compound, and all her needs are provided for by a nebulous, computer-like entity she interacts with over a screen on her wall. But she figures out she has a neighbour, and that she can dig a tiny hole in the concrete wall between them, so she can see that neighbour...
Honestly, it feels like the author just threw out a bunch of random ideas, never thinking about the internal logic of this world. Why does the Shiatsung want to keep all people separated? How is it worth it in terms of energy use to provide all food, objects from the outside (somewhere), without these individuals having to do anything? And then the story with the neighbour...ok if you had no human contact since childhood you would be feral, first of all, you might have trouble relating to anyone at all...so to imagine ???? the scenes with her and the neighbour, it's just sort of cringy, actually.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
TW: isolation