Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Nightside on Callisto
Can I just say how much I love the idea of the three old women in suits fighting off rogue mechs on Callisto? It's quite refreshing. There were several times during the action scenes that I would forget how old they were, since they were fighting and maneuvering like younger women in their prime, and then it'd hit me. I also liked the implied relationship between Jayne and Carly and how it was completely normal. Nagata didn't draw attention to the same-sex relationship like it was something out of the ordinary, unlike in some of the other works we've read (Astrophilia with Stella and Andi & Maddy's sexual orientation in Chitai Heiki Koronbin). It wasn't one of my favorite works from this anthology, but I really enjoyed it.
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It is a rather interesting concept that as medicine, health care, etc advance in the future life expectancy goes up; allowing people to function more robustly later into their lives. Specifically in this story though it mentions that despite the women's health they had very few years left because of the possibility of sudden organ failure. I'm curious about the nature of the technology that has allowed for this type of development: a sudden collapse of everything that has kept you going. I'm sure we've all seen examples of this in contemporary human society, it still seems quite sudden to go from being able to fight robots to death so quickly.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was an interesting concept also. The only thing that bothered me was the intense action scenes seemed to drag on a little bit with the details. The beginning went slowly, then I feel like everything went in fast forward until the last paragraph, then it was over. Did anyone else get a little lost in the technical details? It might just be my preference for some of the other stories this week, but I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteI liked that the mechs got smarter as the battle went on - learning from the women but also making new choices (such as throwing the makeshift spears). It added a layer of psychology to the battle, since the women needed a new strategy every time they wanted to take one down.
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