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Sankara Jayanth S
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The first story 'Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate' was great. I usually cannot wrap my head around time loops and time travel with the whole cause and effect shenanigans that involve it. But this short story was well written.
But...I do not at all like people validating religions after the fact with something they themselves came up with that makes more sense than the original texts. All religions, not one.
— Dec 31, 2020 07:34PM
But...I do not at all like people validating religions after the fact with something they themselves came up with that makes more sense than the original texts. All religions, not one.
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Sankara Jayanth S
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"Omphalos" - This story was both gratifying and slightly triggering for me personally because it deals with religious people reconciling their faith in God with the scientific discoveries about our universe. Nothing to do with the writing, it was great.
— Jan 04, 2021 09:25AM

Sankara Jayanth S
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"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" - Our memory is far from perfect. But what if there is tech that will make our memories perfect? If our entire life is recorded with body cams and there is a search engine in our heads that can bring out video clips from our Lifelog, then all drawbacks of human memory are subverted and we gain lossless memory of events.
Liked this short story.
— Jan 04, 2021 01:12AM
Liked this short story.

Sankara Jayanth S
is on page 212 of 350
"Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny" - Is this how it will be for real if a child is taken care of by a machine from birth? I have to read about this on the internet. Curious.
— Jan 03, 2021 07:30PM

Sankara Jayanth S
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Just finished 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects'... It left a lot to think about. It is not going too far to say that the nature of human race's coexistence with other life forms is not a healthy one in its current state. There are varying level at which people draw a line and call it inhuman treatment of other living things. This story explores the same moral landscape in a far future with AI beings.
— Jan 03, 2021 12:07AM

Sankara Jayanth S
is on page 68 of 350
The story "What's Expected of Us" - What the fork!!! Free will, ftw!!!
Akinetic mutism sounds bone-chilling!
— Jan 01, 2021 09:29PM
Akinetic mutism sounds bone-chilling!

Sankara Jayanth S
is on page 64 of 350
The story 'The Great Silence' hit me right in the feels.
Don't make parrots go extinct, please!
— Jan 01, 2021 12:24AM
Don't make parrots go extinct, please!

Sankara Jayanth S
is on page 58 of 350
The second short story is called 'Exhalation' and boy, it is remarkable. How do people do this - create a world that sounds both implausible and plausible at the same time and give it life like they do. Amazing story!
— Dec 31, 2020 11:54PM