Sticks: Yeah... I think if we had never got the parents' POV, or the narrative hadn't wanted to talk about their motivations, etc. that I wouldn't have been nearly as annoyed. You can't do omniscient narrator and also not think about the characters you're maligning!
I hate death scene fake-outs a lot. Hee. I do too, but this one read very much to me like one that wasn't going to be permanent? Maybe I'm just jaded at this point :)
My favorite thing about this story is the letter from Jedao's mother. Seconded!
"Wind Will Rove": See also this critique which I thought was a really good one.
It might not have been intended to evoke the experience of having a disabled child, but to me, it evoked the Holland essay in fiction format. I've got very mixed feelings about that.
OH! That... is very interesting. And I agree that it was supposed to be about having a disabled child.
(The Holland essay is so weird. I get what the point is supposed to be, and I know people who really like it, but... it's just... I....)
"The Martian Obelisk": I still wonder if it would have been a better story if she'd decided to save the obelisk instead. Have you read "Dogfight" by Swanwick and Gibson?
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Date: 2018-07-18 04:21 am (UTC)I hate death scene fake-outs a lot. Hee. I do too, but this one read very much to me like one that wasn't going to be permanent? Maybe I'm just jaded at this point :)
My favorite thing about this story is the letter from Jedao's mother. Seconded!
"Wind Will Rove": See also this critique which I thought was a really good one.
It might not have been intended to evoke the experience of having a disabled child, but to me, it evoked the Holland essay in fiction format. I've got very mixed feelings about that.
OH! That... is very interesting. And I agree that it was supposed to be about having a disabled child.
(The Holland essay is so weird. I get what the point is supposed to be, and I know people who really like it, but... it's just... I....)
"The Martian Obelisk": I still wonder if it would have been a better story if she'd decided to save the obelisk instead. Have you read "Dogfight" by Swanwick and Gibson?