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A review by djotaku
The Future Is Japanese by
3.0
Another anthology. As usual, I've included my status updates with some spelling fixes. Overall it was a very uneven collection in terms of what I enjoyed. The stories all seemed to run hot or cold for me with nothing lukewarm.
Mono no Aware - a story about a generation ship, identity, and the world just before the end. I think I heard this on Clarkesworld Magazine's podcast. It was still moving to read because I had forgotten the details.
The sound of breaking up - this story takes a sharp right angle. WOW. Where will it end up....great ending to that time travel story
Chitai... - I have no idea what that ending meant
The indiference engine - a haunting tale of NGOs doing what they think is best regardless of the info on the ground. The SF aspects really bring the message home
Sea of trees -a scary ghost story that takes place in a suicide forest in Japan
Endoastronomy - boy do I hate that story. I have no idea what the eff was going on and it didn't even have an explanatory punchline.
In Plain Site - having tons of fun with this detective story - way more than the previous one. Didn't like the ending, but leading up to it was fun
Golden Bread - A pilot accidentally crash-lands onto an asteroid. Interesting that the author has switched the cultures of the people involved in the story relative to how it is now. Finally, all the incongruity makes sense with the final reveal
One breath, one stroke - a lovely, whimsical tale of a house on the boundary between the human and non-human world. Great prose.
Whale Meat - it's a touching story of an estranged father and daughter, but I'm not sure how it fits with the overall SF/fatasy theme of the book.
Mountain people, ocean people" - interesting twist to the story. Very ambiguous ending
Goddess of Mercy - this story seems horrifically more likely now than it did when written. the journalist had a strange was of speaking. But the story wound up pretty neat, even if it had the non-ending they many of the duties in this anthology do.
Autogenic Dreaming - a strange story that reminds me somewhat of that Jasper Fforde series. So it's about Google under a different name. Still not sure I 100% understand what's going on.
Mono no Aware - a story about a generation ship, identity, and the world just before the end. I think I heard this on Clarkesworld Magazine's podcast. It was still moving to read because I had forgotten the details.
The sound of breaking up - this story takes a sharp right angle. WOW. Where will it end up....great ending to that time travel story
Chitai... - I have no idea what that ending meant
The indiference engine - a haunting tale of NGOs doing what they think is best regardless of the info on the ground. The SF aspects really bring the message home
Sea of trees -a scary ghost story that takes place in a suicide forest in Japan
Endoastronomy - boy do I hate that story. I have no idea what the eff was going on and it didn't even have an explanatory punchline.
In Plain Site - having tons of fun with this detective story - way more than the previous one. Didn't like the ending, but leading up to it was fun
Golden Bread - A pilot accidentally crash-lands onto an asteroid. Interesting that the author has switched the cultures of the people involved in the story relative to how it is now. Finally, all the incongruity makes sense with the final reveal
One breath, one stroke - a lovely, whimsical tale of a house on the boundary between the human and non-human world. Great prose.
Whale Meat - it's a touching story of an estranged father and daughter, but I'm not sure how it fits with the overall SF/fatasy theme of the book.
Mountain people, ocean people" - interesting twist to the story. Very ambiguous ending
Goddess of Mercy - this story seems horrifically more likely now than it did when written. the journalist had a strange was of speaking. But the story wound up pretty neat, even if it had the non-ending they many of the duties in this anthology do.
Autogenic Dreaming - a strange story that reminds me somewhat of that Jasper Fforde series. So it's about Google under a different name. Still not sure I 100% understand what's going on.