I thought "Condition of Employment" was pretty good, nicely written and with a twist I didn't see coming.
"The Airy Servitor" was a bit too silly for me. I expected a bit more from St. Clair.
I am unable to rationally discuss "The Lady Who Sailed the Soul" because I am crazy mad head-over-heels in love with Cordwainer Smith's strange, mysterious, poetic, mythic stories.
"Solid State" was pretty bland, and I didn't buy the premise for a minute. (Besides, I always wonder about these insanely overpopulated but technologically advanced future societies where they have to send vast numbers of people to other planets [hardly a realistic possibility] or have different ways of killing off folks through lotteries or whatever. Does it never occur to anybody in these societies that there are ways to reduce the number of births?)
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Date: 2015-03-11 02:56 am (UTC)"The Airy Servitor" was a bit too silly for me. I expected a bit more from St. Clair.
I am unable to rationally discuss "The Lady Who Sailed the Soul" because I am crazy mad head-over-heels in love with Cordwainer Smith's strange, mysterious, poetic, mythic stories.
"Solid State" was pretty bland, and I didn't buy the premise for a minute. (Besides, I always wonder about these insanely overpopulated but technologically advanced future societies where they have to send vast numbers of people to other planets [hardly a realistic possibility] or have different ways of killing off folks through lotteries or whatever. Does it never occur to anybody in these societies that there are ways to reduce the number of births?)