Writers of the Future XXIV
An archivist shows Lela, his daughter, the Compendium of Literature and Literary Analysis, which is a first edition, artificially intelligent book. When the book refuses to state how it feels, it demonstrates that the book is emotional and biased. However, his daughter is fascinated and steals it, shaping her mind with stories and poems the Compendium reads to her. Lela grows up to challenge the predominant Postcultural Objectivist culture. After Lela dies, the book falls into other hands--one who will become a great orator. Finally, someone recognies the book as the catalyst for all of these great people and suggests it be destroyed, but the book talks about being stowed away, so that one day (the text suggests) it can be taken up by other hands.
Clever story about the impact of literature.
Writers of the Future, J. D. EveryHope
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By the Waters of the Ganga by Stephen Gaskell
Writers of the Future XXIII
One-of-Promise wakes in the world of India memories of a different world traveling either in dreams or in the mind. His dreams assure him that he is an alien--an underwater world of kelp forests filled with sea life. One-of-Promise begins to doubt his dreams until he hears of another who told similar stories. However, when he gets there, the other storyteller’s mind is gone (the most powerful moment of the story). The narrator experiences a religious journey pondering life, identity, purpose, doubt, and sanity.
Gaskell has written a wild novella called Strata with novelist Bradley Beaulieu.
One-of-Promise wakes in the world of India memories of a different world traveling either in dreams or in the mind. His dreams assure him that he is an alien--an underwater world of kelp forests filled with sea life. One-of-Promise begins to doubt his dreams until he hears of another who told similar stories. However, when he gets there, the other storyteller’s mind is gone (the most powerful moment of the story). The narrator experiences a religious journey pondering life, identity, purpose, doubt, and sanity.
Gaskell has written a wild novella called Strata with novelist Bradley Beaulieu.
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