Don't You Fucking Look At Me
If only criminals are concerned for their
privacy
then sign me up for some criminal behavior. I can think of lots of things
I do which aren't crimes but which I wouldn't want captured on camera;
administrating Windows, for starters. This on top of the already ongoing
and illegal spying that's been happening on Americans.
So, feeling antagonized, I responded in typical fashion. I gave money to
And then just to cover all my bases of flight from the panoptic scan,
I also gave some money to
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Opposites Occlude
The Speed of Dark
is a straightforward story told through the filter of an autistic point of
view. The story isn't overly complicated, the world is largely congruent
to America of today, but the perspective makes all of the difference.
The edition I read has a short interview with the writer and a set of
questions so a discussion group or teacher could use this as a springboard
to discussion.
This book is not like most of the books I prefer to read but I'm glad I
read it for the way it showed me familiar circumstances through new eyes.
What I liked:
- I gather that this use of perspective to focus a story is called
Voice; it's effective here.
- It had several of my spaceships in cameo roles
- Space travel
- Pattern recognition
- Computer professionals
- Fencing
- Plausible characters, setting and situation.
What I didn't:
- There's not a lot of meat to this story, it wasn't a lot of
new material for thought for me.
- I wanted more detail; the perspective was more of an awareness
filter than a delving into details of observation.
- Some of the characters seemed no more than names.
Probably a good read for people who consider themselves to be not
science fiction readers but are interested in a literary take on the
mindset of an autistic man. Less interesting for people outside of
that criteria.
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