A review by chikagi
Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal

adventurous mysterious reflective tense

4.0

I loved

the idea of offline deer. Implying online deer. Online signal jamming deer. Wild deer! Information about the larger world is revealed slowly and the world-building is subtle. I like that the story ended by refocusing on the reader of the story, the "client" who commissioned the letter and purchased the typewriter, who may have wanted to know about the deer; then the implication of a non-human employer (those responsible for taking the deer offline) who might want the client to know.

I didn't mind the typewriter writing style, but it really would have worked better with a typewriter font, and the "typos" didn't really add to the authenticity, they were mostly just distracting.