Note: This reaction spoils the story, so if you haven’t read Oversite here (or from Asimov’s 14 years ago), go read it first before continuing on. This article is me trying to unpack my reactions when I finished this story. I think I now know understand why lit-fic bothers me so: a feature of the …
Category: Short Fiction Reviews
Uncle Josh Reviews “The Last Biker Gang” by Will McCarthy
This is a story about age and technology and how we as a culture throw people away. Alan Szcyltz is 84, long retired, recently divorced, and fed up. He inhabits a world of robotic autonomous vehicles that are pushing human-driven vehicles off the road and a large house with several empty rooms that pretty much …