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A few notes so far:
The main character is literally the exact same person as Mark Watney in The Martian (by the same author). Only now, 11 years later, the constant references to «nerdy» media just doesnt hit the same. Marvel has gone mainstream, and I have less patience for the «Bazinga!» type of scientist than I did in 2015. Still! The story has me hooked, and I can eye-roll my way through the worst Marvel-refs.

Good lord the main character is annoying.

«En provokasjon fungerer når en mindre mektig enhet får en mektigere enhet til å vende seg mot seg selv.»

In my opinion, the last story rounded off the book with a predictable ode to the niceguy. The woman of the story had no agency whatsoever and just went with a guy she was less interested in because he was the one who took action. Yeah ok.

Ok deeply sincerely what was any of that. 2/10

8/10

Story 3:
Weird and gross 0/10

Thoughts on 2nd story:
Junko believes the man in «To build a fire» lokgs for death because thats what she does. She derives the opposite from her bonfire to the man in the story: to her the fire allows her to welcome death.

“The cold of space smote the unprotected tip of the planet, and he, being on that unprotected tip, received the full force of the blow. The blood of his body recoiled before it.”

Thoughts on the first story:
My theory is that what happened with his wife mirrors the deaths of those in the earthquake: she died on the first day. she was still, unmoving, as if caught in the rubble. and after a week she leaves, and is unreachable, as if buried in the ground.
it could also be more literal: she reacts strongly to this event and her husband doesnt notice one bit, or try to help her. she leaves.

Now I finally know how James Somerton felt.

Dragon racism