As i listened i kept hearing jargon that was easy to grasp but did not pull brain power away from story.
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Many stories get so deep in explaining Sci-fi that you have to get out scratch paper, work some figures, lookup some formula and Latin root words. (finding it was made up or from greek) then the story needs a 10 min rewind to catch up for what has happened while i was playing with numbers or doing a dictionary dash.
Skinhorse used contemporary ideas (Global warming, Genetics, Space travel) and blended them with a almost Western novella sencibilities. this was also filled with a horror of war similar to the Vietnam era destruction of nature and then zombie clones. with a little tweaking it could have been on Pseudopod. (by tweaking i mean evil laughter at the end)
It felt like it might be a Ben Bova story, then you had the feeling someone was going to get strung up for something they did. The Sci-fi tech felt like that Heinlein would have been writing if on the current cutting edge of tech. (no slide rulers and checking physics to enter into a computer) There was this under current of eco-consciousness that did not get preachy but tells it straight by saying "we messed up, we have to live with it."
I loved this story and would love to read a entire novel of this world with the detail taken on the small things and the big things figuring themselves out.
« Last Edit: August 21, 2009, 03:57:04 AM by the_true_morg »
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