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January 26, 2010
Fembot by Carlos Hernandez
Fembot
by Carlos Hernandez was published in Daybreak Magazine on Christmas Day. It's a story about a war in North Korea, following a squad of American troops. One of the soldiers has a computer embedded in his brain by the Army, and the plot explores what could happen after that.
The setting is pretty grim: war and death and starvation, dogs as IEDs, survival. However the core of the story is about friendship and love. It's an interesting story, with a nice ending, but the war setting irritated me a bit: too much Iraq and Afghanistan. And the optimism was a small jewel in a pile of slag.
Good writing and an interesting story, but I didn't love it and the thought experiment part of the story didn't really resonate enough with me to make me think anything new.