"True Self" was just odd. I tend to favor satiric stories, so that was OK; but it was so weirdly made up of little bits and pieces that the satire didn't really go anywhere.
Two stars out of five.
"Way Up Yonder" was mostly silly. The whole "antebellum South in space" theme was ridiculous without having any satiric edge to it. (Let's see the author use robots to comment on the current racial situation in the USA!) The thing about the slave robots having their own sort of voodoo rituals in their dances was rather offensive, I thought, and only reinforces stereotypes. And the space war/spy subplot was as blah as the love story.
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Date: 2014-08-19 03:15 am (UTC)Two stars out of five.
"Way Up Yonder" was mostly silly. The whole "antebellum South in space" theme was ridiculous without having any satiric edge to it. (Let's see the author use robots to comment on the current racial situation in the USA!) The thing about the slave robots having their own sort of voodoo rituals in their dances was rather offensive, I thought, and only reinforces stereotypes. And the space war/spy subplot was as blah as the love story.
One and one-half stars out of five.