Status Updates From Axiomatic

All stories here are great, but The Caress is the most psychedelic, twisted scifi I've read in a long time

The Moat - The two lines of this story didn’t come together well enough, and there was no real resolution

Learning to Be Me - The first half of his story was really boring. Blah blah, is the jewel really me or not, oh, the jewel must have just wondered that too, lol. But I really liked the ending.

A Kidnapping - Terrifying! I’m glad I wasn’t in this story.

Seeing - Cool story. It sounds really weird to have that kind of illusion. I like how realistic the story felt.

The Safe-Deposit Box - Cool idea. The development at the end wasn’t very satisfying, though. It didn’t seem to explain much.

Axiomatic - :( heartbreaking

That was definitely sad. But I’m more irritated that the conspiracy didn’t extend to using a multi-armed bandit algorithm to choose the best option out of various iterations of the drug / placebo.

The Carress - What a bizarre story. I can’t say I liked this one.

Eugene - A run-of-the-mill genetic engineering story that suddenly went off the deep end. Wtf?! How is that one paragraph of mumbo jumbo supposed to justify a non-existent person suddenly talking to his parents on the TV? And why did he donate *all* of their money, so they had to sell their house and find dead-end jobs again? He could have left them a couple million. Seriously.

So far so good

The Hundred Light-Year Diary - I liked this story. It reminded me of Chiang’s What’s Expected of Us, but a lot more fleshed out. It also made me think of the time tombs in Hyperion Cantos, where so far the time reversal hasn’t been explained enough that I even know what it means. Hopefully by the end of the Hyperion series, the time reversal there will make as much sense as it did in this story.

The Infinte Assassin - I don’t fully understand all the mechanics here, but I like the idea of a drug that lets you live as alternate versions of yourself. And I like the idea of the assassin always following a procedure to do things in the same way, so random outside events don’t affect him too much.

wonderful

El último relato que he leído, La caricia, es el que menos me ha gustado. Muy decepcionante, muy conveniente, nada parece tener consecuencias al final.

Very cool stories so far here. The first story is about a dimension jumping assassin on a mission to eliminate a threat that warps reality around her. The next two are connected with time travel, the first being what would happen to free will if everyone was being sent a "journal" from themselves from the future. The next concerns a couple toying with the idea of making a genetically perfect child. Very smart stuff

wooo HARD SCIFI

Interesting!

This is going to be a slow, pay lots of attention to read.

FUCK! I just read "Learning To Be Me" and I am recognizing a specific philosophical horror genre that fucks me up immensely, containing this and the gradual brain hijacking of the ancillaries in Imperial Raadch.

Closer: 4/5

The Moral Virologist: 4/5

Appropriate Love: 3.5/5

Appropriate Love: 3.5/5

Into Darkness: 2.5/5

The Cutie: 3/5

The Walk: 3.5/5

The Moat: 3/5
Starts well but abruptly ends in a way I didn't like.

Learning to Be Me: 5/5
So good.

A Kidnapping: 4/5
All we are is our projections in other people's minds. Clever story.

Seeing: 4/5
Very nice idea.