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What a great read! If you enjoyed all the questions raised in “The Matrix” franchise, whether we could potentially be living in a computer-generated reality, you’ll love this short novella where Larry discovers a brick wall that isn’t really solid and realizes he’s in a computer simulation… or is he? As he and wife Boo struggle to figure out what is real and what is fake, and Larry realizes he may in fact be in danger (complete with a bunch of “Goddammit, Larry!” moments that had me cackling out
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OK, I know this dates me, but I couldn't help but think that Rod Serling would be proud of this story. It reminded me of all those Friday nights I sat glued to the TV, totally enthralled by the twists and turns of The Twilight Zone. And "Goddammit, Larry!" couldn't come at a better time, because Jordan Peele is about to launch a revival of the show in April. I can only hope the new TZ is as good as Michael Gardner's masterful short story.
Think of it as a chocolate truffle--a delectable morsel t ...more
Think of it as a chocolate truffle--a delectable morsel t ...more
Douglas Adams is going to be very disappointed. His mice miscalculated - badly.
The answer to life, the universe and everything else is not '42'; it's a lot more complicated than that, as Alexander Rollins
(writing under his nom de plume of Michael Gardner)
demonstrates with this elegant, woundingly elegiac short story.
For a short story, I found it a little slow to grip. On the other hand, now that I've read it, I can't unlatch the blasted thing from my mind.
Or my heart. Superb. ...more
The answer to life, the universe and everything else is not '42'; it's a lot more complicated than that, as Alexander Rollins
(writing under his nom de plume of Michael Gardner)
demonstrates with this elegant, woundingly elegiac short story.
For a short story, I found it a little slow to grip. On the other hand, now that I've read it, I can't unlatch the blasted thing from my mind.
Or my heart. Superb. ...more
Larry is a carpet salesman and is happily married to Boo... or is he? For a short story, this tells of a fantastic twist involving gamers and cyber worlds. Excellently witty.
Are we programmed?
The religious people believe in a higher being that created us all. The Darwinists believe in evolution. These are some basics know to everyone. With the technology, our life gets more and more controlled and supervised. No matter what we believe in, we know that there are video cameras everywhere, that computer games are so advanced that we hardly distinguish reality from the virtual world.
In this short story, we - the readers - are the ones confused and not Larry. Or maybe is ...more
The religious people believe in a higher being that created us all. The Darwinists believe in evolution. These are some basics know to everyone. With the technology, our life gets more and more controlled and supervised. No matter what we believe in, we know that there are video cameras everywhere, that computer games are so advanced that we hardly distinguish reality from the virtual world.
In this short story, we - the readers - are the ones confused and not Larry. Or maybe is ...more
I have eight grandchildren. Two of the boys are complete computer game nerds. I really hope they don't end up like Larry!
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