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A review by tain_hu
Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest by T.C. Boyle, Cory Doctorow, Jim Shepard, Bryan Hurt, Aimee Bender
inconsistent. stories worked best when they didn’t rely on stale tropes about surveillance and the panopticon, dystopia, drones, snitches get stitches, blah blah. that’s not the scary thing about surveillance! my favourites were stories of/in place -
“isn’t moving on just moving back? Yielding? A surrender? I’ve never liked this state, it’s always felt uneasy to me, trembly, on the verge of explode, it’s the air, the winds, the fires, tides under ocean, deserts, I don’t know, such foreboding, just a sense is all.”
“isn’t moving on just moving back? Yielding? A surrender? I’ve never liked this state, it’s always felt uneasy to me, trembly, on the verge of explode, it’s the air, the winds, the fires, tides under ocean, deserts, I don’t know, such foreboding, just a sense is all.”