A review by kandicez
The Best of Subterranean by William Schafer

5.0

I wish I could give more stars! I read this because a friend in a Dystopian book club said this was the short story the episode The Entire History of You of Black Mirror was based on. tEHoY is not one of my favorite episodes, but that's not a bad thing since the worst episode in that series is better than many series best offerings.

This longish short story was terrific! It made me think even more than the episode did about how we all rewrite our own history and we are almost always the hero of our that story. Even when we act much less than heroic.

I will now be looking for everything Ted Chiang ever wrote because he has apparently won many awards and this is nowhere near his best. Wow! Just wow.