Deep Sleep
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A Future Darkly
Blurb
A teenage psion wakes up alone on a failing colony ship. As
her memory returns, she struggles to survive and escape to the planet’s
surface.
Memories
before reading
This story was my favorite—of the ‘dark ones’—for a long
time, and I used it as a showpiece of sorts whenever anybody said “I want to
read something you’ve written!” I remember a crude drawing of the spaceship I
made, which I’d love to show you but it has perished. This is one of the few
stories I went back and rewrote, which means, as I sit down to read, I’m a
little worried my memories of the Creative story will be ruined by Mr. Editor...
Review
after reading
Whew! That’s a good story. As I read, I remembered what Mr.
Editor did, which was save the story. In the first draft, the ship’s computer
had been an entirely unnecessary character, its entire purpose easily edited
down to a log entry. I can see (but you can’t) the brush-strokes where Mr.
Editor cleaned up Creative’s sloppy timeline, smoothing out the flash-backs
while driving the survival horror plot. Oh, and he changed the ending. Good
work, Mr. Editor. This time. This story reminds me how much more
confident I’ve become in my Creative voice in the year or so since I wrote it,
but I’ll still hold it up a showpiece for Science Fantasy Romance.
Next Time
Director Chen Saves the Day
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