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reviewed Sinopticon by Xueting Christine Ni

Xueting Christine Ni: Sinopticon (2021, Black Library, The)

"Tombs of the Universe," "宇宙墓碑"

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Read "Tombs of the Universe," "宇宙墓碑". It’s great! I love it! It’s a story with a very different trope to what I’m used to, felt more like reading a documentation of the ancient past in the far future (similar to how "Always Coming Home" describes a society that will have been in the distant future-past), a story about the customs of burial of the dead in a space exploration age and ultimately spaces rejection of humanity as a live-adverting vast void. Will read again.

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg: Nightfall (1991, Grafton)

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the …

"What is Love"

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"What is Love" is such a cursed story with dubious consent sprinkled all over it, .. I can recommend it I guess?

Xueting Christine Ni: Sinopticon (2021, Black Library, The)

"The Last Save", "最终档案"

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Next one up was "The Last Save", "最终档案" by Gu Shi. I actually quite liked this one. It's a techno-dystopian story introducing a "save and reload" mechanic to life, a wildly intrusive one even. I enjoyed the story, the ending just wasn't for me. The author could have taken this further I think

Xueting Christine Ni: Sinopticon (2021, Black Library, The)

Review of "Qiankun and Alex", "乾坤和亚力"

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Nibbled my way through "Qiankun and Alex", "乾坤和亚力", it's fun, it's easy, but it also is everything but insightful. Still an enjoyable read

Xueting Christine Ni: Sinopticon (2021, Black Library, The)

Finished "The Absolution Experiment", "特赦实验"。

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Finished "The Absolution Experiment", "特赦实验" aaaaand I just don't like it? Like it starts great, the entry dialogue is good and the initial scene is moody. It's an interesting starting-off point with plenty paths this could have gone and it just went into a personal vendetta story, involving the government as the acting force, the "good", that just tastes like a Marvel or DC style comic, it's a bland trope. I will still cherish the first part, I liked it!

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg: Nightfall (1991, Grafton)

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the …

Damn. I didn’t expect the short story “Hostess” to be this intrusive and all encompassing of the human experience, turning it so very sour. This will stay with me as a brainworm, literally..

(can’t write much more than this to not spoil it)