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This is a collection of short stories. Some of them really stuck with me, some of them dragged on far too long and I wouldn’t have kept listening had I not been on an airplane. I enjoyed the author commentary after each story. Two stories really stuck with me. The first, Exhalation, is about some robots who begin to learn who exactly they are and how their universe was created, due to the fact that…
I listened to this relatively short novella on a long plane flight. I have liked previous books by Chambers and had seen this one around so I thought I would give it a try. This is the first in a series of ‘Monk and Robot’ stories. In a far future, humans live on a distant planet, and have reverted to simpler lives after their robots gained sentience and the two races parted ways. Our main…
It has been a challenging year personally and professionally, and I didn’t get as much done as I had hoped or planned. I started the year with some goals to revise and submit short fiction, participate in the “write-a-story-a-week” challenge with someone on a writing Discord (he succeeded), and edit my novel. I did very little of this. I ended up going the whole year without submitting anything, but at least I didn’t get any…
