gabriellev 's review for:

Expiration by Théophile Sersiron, Ted Chiang
3.0
reflective medium-paced

I really like the short story format - but somehow I didn't quite get the ethical conundrums described there. Maybe it's a cultural thing, whereby a situation will feel like a moral paradox to an American audience but quite clearcut to others. And vice versa some of the non-comundrum like decisions taken by the characters aside the main conundrum seem like very odd moral choices to me. Basically I didn't feel challenged by the challenges but very uncomfortable with the characters that aren't meant to be problematic.