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Hugo shorts
Again, in reading order:
美食三品 (Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times), 宝树 / Baoshu. What if you could experience food as another eats it? Quite a nice story, but I found the biology hard to swallow...
The Sound of Children Screaming, Rachael K. Jones. An angry story about gun violence in schools.
The Mausoleum’s Children, Aliette de Bodard. A strange and well-sketched world, with some good twists.
How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub, P. Djèlí Clark. What could possibly go wrong? I'm afraid I found the plot here a bit too obvious.
Better Living Through Algorithms, Naomi Kritzer. I was expecting this to head for one of two obvious cliché endings (and thus to be annoying), but actually it went elsewhere and I thought it was pretty good.
Answerless Journey, Han Song (tr. Alex Woodend). Two people wake up on a spaceship without their memories; an interesting idea, but it needed some answers to actually be engaging.
美食三品 (Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times), 宝树 / Baoshu. What if you could experience food as another eats it? Quite a nice story, but I found the biology hard to swallow...
The Sound of Children Screaming, Rachael K. Jones. An angry story about gun violence in schools.
The Mausoleum’s Children, Aliette de Bodard. A strange and well-sketched world, with some good twists.
How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub, P. Djèlí Clark. What could possibly go wrong? I'm afraid I found the plot here a bit too obvious.
Better Living Through Algorithms, Naomi Kritzer. I was expecting this to head for one of two obvious cliché endings (and thus to be annoying), but actually it went elsewhere and I thought it was pretty good.
Answerless Journey, Han Song (tr. Alex Woodend). Two people wake up on a spaceship without their memories; an interesting idea, but it needed some answers to actually be engaging.
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What were the clichés you were expecting from "Better Living Through Algorithms"?
(Honestly I can't remember much of the details of any of these except "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub", and it's only a couple of weeks since I read them. I'm going to find it hard to produced a ranked vote.)
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OK, yeah, I did think it was heading for the second of those.