A follow-up to the 2018 Sci-Fi Shorts. This time I actually paid for a Kindle book so, I thought, it better be good. And it indeed was. As I was reading it during the Euro 2024, I found the footie references (Magi-water, Intuition, Spy Human) especially timely, while Quick Sale provides a simple yet efficient solution to all problems of humankind. I leave it up to you to discover why it’s a bad idea — always was — to keep Harry Potter books in the house. Nuff said: you can read the first story, Tunnel Vision, on a preview in its entirety, and decide if you really want more of this stuff. I bet you do.
While I was at it, I also downloaded Sci-Fi Shorts and, upon finishing the sequel, I decided to re-read the first book. My I was for a surprise: there was a number of stories I didn’t recall at all. Most likely because they were not in at the time. Here they are: Kerr Blompty; The Last Man of Earth; The Mind Field; The Knowledge Drain; Flies, Damned Flies, and Stacked Biscuits; Tree Hugger; The Jinx. Now I am in two minds about the extras. I liked most of them*. However, they made the formerly short collection of shorts, well, not-so-short. Hmmm. Hmmm.
Mark Roman’s Sci-Fi Shorts II
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| * | In fact, all of them bar the hideously revolting The Knowledge Drain, what with its ugly characters and generally disgusterous content, set in the Foul Universe, etc. etc. It would make me sick forever if I didn’t read it before as a repugnant appendix to The Ultimate Inferior Beings and survived, probably thanks to the mnemic neglect effect. I don’t remember. Read it at your own risk. |
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