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CleverClothe · 07-19-2008, 12:36 AM

Hi DixieGal. I just finished reading Year's Best SF 13 about two weeks ago and I really must suggest that you read "Lustration".

The story starts out pretty slow, yes, but it has a good lesson in it. The story is about an alien race that over the corse of eons (I wonder why they never developed further) have built a world spanning computer made entirely of wood. But for tens of thousands of years the computer has been throwing fits and breaking down. The priests believe that the computer is conscious and is suffering a mental breakdown because it is trapped living forever. But an average repair guy has a much different idea about the problem.

I really loved these stories:
How Music Begins
End Game
Induction
A Blue & Cloudless Sky
Objective Impermeability in a Closed System (similar to A Blue & Cloudless Sky)
Artifice & Intelligence
Third Person
The Bridge

Repeating the Past was very disturbing. It is about a decendent of a Holocaust survivor who joins a neo nazi group, even after his mother and grandfather (or grandmother, not clear) try to teach him to not repeat the horrors of the past. So the grandfather takes matters into his own hands and uses some mind altering equipment, that he and the mother have worked on, on the boy.

One wonders, how far should we go to prevent the horrors of the past being repeated?

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CleverClothe Guru Posts: 618 Karma: 493394 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Device: iRex iLiad, Onyx Boox 60	Hi DixieGal. I just finished reading Year's Best SF 13 about two weeks ago and I really must suggest that you read "Lustration". The story starts out pretty slow, yes, but it has a good lesson in it. The story is about an alien race that over the corse of eons (I wonder why they never developed further) have built a world spanning computer made entirely of wood. But for tens of thousands of years the computer has been throwing fits and breaking down. The priests believe that the computer is conscious and is suffering a mental breakdown because it is trapped living forever. But an average repair guy has a much different idea about the problem. I really loved these stories: How Music Begins End Game Induction A Blue & Cloudless Sky Objective Impermeability in a Closed System (similar to A Blue & Cloudless Sky) Artifice & Intelligence Third Person The Bridge Repeating the Past was very disturbing. It is about a decendent of a Holocaust survivor who joins a neo nazi group, even after his mother and grandfather (or grandmother, not clear) try to teach him to not repeat the horrors of the past. So the grandfather takes matters into his own hands and uses some mind altering equipment, that he and the mother have worked on, on the boy. One wonders, how far should we go to prevent the horrors of the past being repeated? Last edited by CleverClothe; 07-19-2008 at 12:58 AM.