Status Updates From Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

So far, she is edging closer and closer towards Ursula Le Guin. I don’t know what it is about both of their writings. It’s can’t just be the fact that it’s sci-fi. It’s this dated sci-fi that just doesn’t flow for me whatsoever.

Apparently this was the third time that I've read "A Momentary Taste of Being" - perhaps explaining the little I did remember, that it was three years ago, not eleven, that I last read it. But for the longest Tiptree story in this collection - by two hours! - it drags. The ending is not satisfying for a novella-length work; there's not enough else to it to make me want to linger on it.