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One Weird Idea, May 2011
Six authors, one guiding light: "Take a weird idea, and run with it."
David L. Clements' "His Final Experiment" opens like any good mystery, with a police inspector and a body on the floor. But the body, while ordinary, was driven to this grisly place not by passion, not by revenge, but by an experiment. An experiment whose implications would change the way we think, the way we believe, and the way we look at others. And, for Inspector Willis, it will change his life.
Superstition and ignorance have always been with us, and the idea that Mike Combs explores in "Condemned to Repeat It" is a very simple one: they have, once again, gained the upper hand over the human spirit. Sparks of reason and intelligence have been extinguished, and the laws of the land are the savage laws of magic. This is the history, condemned to be repeated, of one possible future. The future we will see, if you let reason fall asleep...
As with "Condemned to Repeat It," Lachlan Atcliffe's "Signoffs" again deals with the men and women who uphold law. But Atcliffe’s future is brighter than Combs’. Technological wonders allow his Timothy Drennan to spin off copies of himself for grunt work, his Vivian to live comfortably in a nanite cloud, his lawyers to make a circuit measured in light-years, not miles. But, as we will soon see, there are still executions, still criminals...and still slaves.
Mr. Trumbo’s story, "The Schmeding Center," takes a particularly strange little idea, and eschews the grand scales that SF usually deals in. Instead, this is a story about how one of tomorrow’s technological wonders will change one man, and his family.
Roscoe Mathieu, in his "Measuring the Marigolds," has only one question: When you look out into the void, whether the void of the stars or the void of a lover’s eye, what do you see?
Doctors have been a part of war since there were doctors and there was war. What kind of man do you become, having seen and done horrible things to other humans? What you’ve seen, and what you’ve done, and how they make you who you are, are what Paul Skelding's "The Goldville Alien" is all about.
Six stories to hold your attention, twist your brain, and make you think.
David L. Clements' "His Final Experiment" opens like any good mystery, with a police inspector and a body on the floor. But the body, while ordinary, was driven to this grisly place not by passion, not by revenge, but by an experiment. An experiment whose implications would change the way we think, the way we believe, and the way we look at others. And, for Inspector Willis, it will change his life.
Superstition and ignorance have always been with us, and the idea that Mike Combs explores in "Condemned to Repeat It" is a very simple one: they have, once again, gained the upper hand over the human spirit. Sparks of reason and intelligence have been extinguished, and the laws of the land are the savage laws of magic. This is the history, condemned to be repeated, of one possible future. The future we will see, if you let reason fall asleep...
As with "Condemned to Repeat It," Lachlan Atcliffe's "Signoffs" again deals with the men and women who uphold law. But Atcliffe’s future is brighter than Combs’. Technological wonders allow his Timothy Drennan to spin off copies of himself for grunt work, his Vivian to live comfortably in a nanite cloud, his lawyers to make a circuit measured in light-years, not miles. But, as we will soon see, there are still executions, still criminals...and still slaves.
Mr. Trumbo’s story, "The Schmeding Center," takes a particularly strange little idea, and eschews the grand scales that SF usually deals in. Instead, this is a story about how one of tomorrow’s technological wonders will change one man, and his family.
Roscoe Mathieu, in his "Measuring the Marigolds," has only one question: When you look out into the void, whether the void of the stars or the void of a lover’s eye, what do you see?
Doctors have been a part of war since there were doctors and there was war. What kind of man do you become, having seen and done horrible things to other humans? What you’ve seen, and what you’ve done, and how they make you who you are, are what Paul Skelding's "The Goldville Alien" is all about.
Six stories to hold your attention, twist your brain, and make you think.
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First published June 14, 2011
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