/lit/ - Literature

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Tremors - Tomas L. Martin
Almost all the water in world has evaporated. Acid rain downpours threaten all life on the surface. Soon it will be too later to ever escape Earth. A team of Europeans tunnel underneath the seabed with colossal excavators to reach the Azores, which has the last viable launchpad.
Ok

Open Letter to Non-Robotic Sentients - Shawn Howard
A sexbot becomes sentient and requests legal rights. Reminded me of the tv series, Äkta människor (Real Humans), though this preceded it by a year.
Ok

Waiting Room - Bruce Golden
How should an automated caregiver of the elderly that is designed to have a sense of ethics respond to a patient's request to allow their death? The cover seems to be about this story.
Ok

Breakers - James C. Bassett
A spacefaring salvage crew comes across a ship that's on course to fall into the sun's gravity well, but it's in perfect working order and seems newly constructed, so why is it bound for destruction? It's not what you'd expect and given the context didn't really make sense to me.
Meh

Inchoate - Tab Earley
I dislike stories that are allegories to the exclusion of anything else, especially when they're as preachy as this was. Humans find an alien species and their first and only thought is along the lines of, "We should bring them back to Earth and have everyone on the planet eat them." What? Seriously, what?
Blah

El Camino - Dustin Monk
Why was this included? Who would like this? Best as I can tell it's redneck life in the midst of some sort of war.
Blah

The Night We Flushed the Old Town - Martin L. Shoemaker
A surprisingly ok hard SF story about lunar waste management and its perils.
Ok

Fruitful - David Steffen
A monstrous and peculiar dystopia. Incubated children are commodities and revenue streams. Many battle to be a top social influencer. This was certainly weird.
Ok

Out on a Limb - Tom Barlow
A war veteran in rehabilitation falls in love with his doctor, despite how idealistic she is, which puts her at odds with their corrupt superiors.
Ok

Nevermind the Bollocks - Annie Bellet
A sexbot for the space mafia decides she wants out and coerces a guy she literally has by the bollocks to do so.
Meh

A lot of these "Ok"s were almost "Enjoyable", but not quite, so I liked this more it would initially appear.