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Escape Pod => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Russell Nash on September 17, 2009, 07:18:32 AM
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EP012: Clean Up Your Room! (http://escapepod.org/2005/07/28/ep012-clean-up-your-room/)
By Laura Anne Gilman (http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman).
Read by Mur Lafferty (of Geek Fu Action Grip (http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/)).
“Jessy, put that away and come eat breakfast. You won’t get anything useful done on an empty stomach.” The voice was the usual gender-neutral computer-generated drone, and yet it sounded different to her this morning. Obviously, the tone modifiers Gregory had suggested were working, too. That was going to be a selling point for everyone yelping about the dehumanization of home life. In a few generations, they’d be able to personalize the voice, maybe even to customer order.
Rated G. Contains intense maternal nagging and disturbing chorework. May not be suitable for some adults.
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Listen to this week’s Escape Pod! (http://media.rawvoice.com/escapepod/media.libsyn.com/media/escapepod/EP012_CleanRoom.mp3)
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This story was quite funny, even though it was a bit predictable in the Mom program taking over the house. It's similar to Douglas Adams storylines about Real People Personalities (RPP) that are really mostly just a pain in the ass. The protagonist seemed entirely too slow on the uptake though. I can understand being surprised the first time that the program does something weird, but then every time a new weird thing happened she'd immediately say "but that's impossible" as if she hadn't already seen it do "impossible" things.
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Where was the ending ??? ??? I enjoyed the story right up until the end, where it just... stopped, nothing really happened.