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A review by oleksandr
Asimov's Science Fiction, September/October 2017 by Robert Frazier, Jane Yolen, John Richard Trtek, James E. Gunn, Dennis E. Staples, Suzanne Palmer, Michael Swanwick, Leslie J. Anderson, Sandra McDonald, Harry Turtledove, Carrie Vaughn, Sarah Pinsker, William Preston, Kit Reed, Erwin S. Strauss, Robert Silverberg, Sheila Williams, Tim McDaniel, Robert Borski, Norman Spinrad, R. Garcia y Robertson, James Patrick Kelly, Allen M. Steele, Bethany Powell, Stuart Greenhouse
3.0
This novelette was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards in 2018
The story is set in a generations ship, where quite early in the journey all non-essential information was destroyed, so there is no Earth’s literature, music, movies, etc. At the same time there were still a lot of people, who recalled both the Earth and its culture, so they tried to recreate it from scratch, including writing books or shooting movies “as I recall them”. The action is set a few generation down the way when young generation asks about the necessity of all this old stuff, to which they cannot relate. The story reminded me of [a:Franz Kafka|5223|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1495464914p2/5223.jpg]'s [b:The Great Wall of China|20299055|The Great Wall of China|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389536235s/20299055.jpg|46240729] as the problem when actual doers are unable to see what they do on a greater scale.
It is fine story but nothing esceptional.
The story is set in a generations ship, where quite early in the journey all non-essential information was destroyed, so there is no Earth’s literature, music, movies, etc. At the same time there were still a lot of people, who recalled both the Earth and its culture, so they tried to recreate it from scratch, including writing books or shooting movies “as I recall them”. The action is set a few generation down the way when young generation asks about the necessity of all this old stuff, to which they cannot relate. The story reminded me of [a:Franz Kafka|5223|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1495464914p2/5223.jpg]'s [b:The Great Wall of China|20299055|The Great Wall of China|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389536235s/20299055.jpg|46240729] as the problem when actual doers are unable to see what they do on a greater scale.
It is fine story but nothing esceptional.