Brenda Peynado

Humans are confined to individual quarters while they figure out how to save us/themselves from all the diseases killing us/them. yikes. That's rather extreme and too close to our recent past. Except in our lives, most of us weren't completely alone.

Our characters enter a VR world to work, do science stuff and more.

I was digging the story until maybe the last 5th when new situations and information was presented, but then the story ended, with no explanations or conclusions. huh?! Boo!… (altro)

Treat-read, a free novella from Tor.

Alien massacres. That is, we massacred them. Just because they were passive refugees.

Honestly, I think the tale works on a lot of levels, from an idea of not just aliens on the top layer but from the idea of normal, regular people who are naturally passive to begin with. You know, the whole Yin/Yang argument. If a person doesn't stand up and fight, do they deserve to be maltreated? How about rape victims? Did they have it coming to them?

You see where I'm going with this? It's a real thing. A lot of people are observers or hate the whole rat-race or just cherish PEACE. It's not a bad thing. At all. In fact, being one of the people who naturally leans toward the same outlook as these poor aliens, I'm naturally horrified and shocked into squeamishness by the horror displayed here.

Think about monks being burned alive, or passive non-violent demonstrations, or Gandhi... you get the idea of where I'm coming from.

Maybe no one else will see it the way I do and the over-message being kinda like a Christian guilt kind of thing doesn't really cut it for me. Humans can be real shits to each other and anyone classified as "other".

Decent read, not the best thing I've ever read, but I love how many levels can be interpreted within it. :)… (altro)