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A review by lanko
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2015 by Gordon Van Gelder
5.0
I didn't read this magazine, I've only read What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear, by Bao Shu, through the Best SFF Novellas of 2016 Anthology.
Unfortunately, that's the only place this novella appeared, so it doesn't have a cover or anything else and I've enjoyed it a lot and wanted it on my shelf.
The story uses the concept of "Arrow of Time" and it passes on China. Imagine that instead of starting in 1917 with the Communist revolution in Russia, WWII in 1939 and the Cold War afterwards, until today, the arrow of time is reversed.
We start in say in early 20th century (somewhere around that), but the world has the technology of 2016.
Then the Gulf War happens, oil shortage and the Cold War makes some technologies disappear, Mao Zedong ascends and starts his reforms, then the world goes to shit when Hitler ascends in Germany, and so on.
The character has smartphones, and then as year passes, that is only a distant memory, as technology "advances" backwards.
He also appears to be the student who stood in front of the tanks in the Red Square.
Pretty interesting concept, there's also a love story and other sub-plot going.
Unfortunately, that's the only place this novella appeared, so it doesn't have a cover or anything else and I've enjoyed it a lot and wanted it on my shelf.
The story uses the concept of "Arrow of Time" and it passes on China. Imagine that instead of starting in 1917 with the Communist revolution in Russia, WWII in 1939 and the Cold War afterwards, until today, the arrow of time is reversed.
We start in say in early 20th century (somewhere around that), but the world has the technology of 2016.
Then the Gulf War happens, oil shortage and the Cold War makes some technologies disappear, Mao Zedong ascends and starts his reforms, then the world goes to shit when Hitler ascends in Germany, and so on.
The character has smartphones, and then as year passes, that is only a distant memory, as technology "advances" backwards.
He also appears to be the student who stood in front of the tanks in the Red Square.
Pretty interesting concept, there's also a love story and other sub-plot going.