Science Up Some Love
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Collected in
A Future Darkly
Blurb
“Pygmalion @SatelliteTYT: I’m the last man on Tau Ceti. It’s
not my fault.” A scientist tries to make something of the organism that
devoured the rest of the colonists, his only companion the orbiting
communications AI.
Memories
before reading
I wrote this story while I was on a “stay-cation”, sitting
alone in a hotel room in the nearest big city because I was tired of my house.
I remember it was written extremely slowly, each sentence thought over, and
many breaks for 7-11 hamburgers—these turned out, later, to be a bad idea in
food—slowly, but steadily, building up the romance and the science fiction
alternately unto the finish. Let’s read!
Review
after reading
I love both the science fiction and the romance in this
story, and the Twitter-style dialogue is good, too, even if it’s a pain to
format afterwards. I think writing so slowly meant that I had lots of time to
incorporate a thousand references to other works of this nature, making this a
rather literary work, or something of a Where’s Waldo story on the second
read-through. Can you find all of them? (I think there’s about six intentional
ones, and another two accidental I just now spotted.)
Next Week
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