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A review by frenchtoast_n_books
MEM by Bethany C. Morrow
5.0
I knew this book would be right up my alley.
It's short, raw, and makes you think deeply about what makes humans human. What drives our humanity and what happens if we can wish away our worst memories? What happens when the vessel we place that memory is able to think beyond that memory, have wishes and desires, and can emote feelings? Are they human or are they what they are meant to be, property?
Buckle in and get your thinking caps strapped tight because you with think about these questions and attempt to answer them because this happens to our protagonist. She is a Mem, a humanoid memory of a human woman created through science, but she remembers the woman's memories from before the traumatic event. She has desires. She feels. Is she human? She'd like to think so.
The Roarin' 20s was a fantastic backdrop to explore the science and fiction behind memory alteration, the creation of a human copy as a vessel to store the memory, and the reality of the dilemma about humanity when the science backfires.
I loved that I was able to get a sense of the characters and fall in love with the writing in so few pages and words. This is really exemplary work.
It's short, raw, and makes you think deeply about what makes humans human. What drives our humanity and what happens if we can wish away our worst memories? What happens when the vessel we place that memory is able to think beyond that memory, have wishes and desires, and can emote feelings? Are they human or are they what they are meant to be, property?
Buckle in and get your thinking caps strapped tight because you with think about these questions and attempt to answer them because this happens to our protagonist. She is a Mem, a humanoid memory of a human woman created through science, but she remembers the woman's memories from before the traumatic event. She has desires. She feels. Is she human? She'd like to think so.
The Roarin' 20s was a fantastic backdrop to explore the science and fiction behind memory alteration, the creation of a human copy as a vessel to store the memory, and the reality of the dilemma about humanity when the science backfires.
I loved that I was able to get a sense of the characters and fall in love with the writing in so few pages and words. This is really exemplary work.