Monday, December 1, 2014

Week Ten- The Fiction of Ideas

This week I read James Tiptree Jr.'s Short story, And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side. Im not sure I really enjoyed reading this short story, not that is was not good, it just struck some chords as being scary or dangerous. It is set on a world ( not sure if it is earth) but it is insinutated that you can visit other worlds besides your own (much like Star Trek etc..)
This kid, the interviewer is dumb. He hears the story the redheaded man tells him but instead of actually listening to how Aliens are taking over and humans are going to be snuffed out as slaves or the poorest of the poor.
The redheaded man's wife seems to be a play toy for them. so after these horrific scenes the man has laid out before this young man,
he just sort of brushes it off and runs to the first Alien he meets, not caring if they r the dangerous types, in this world life only gets crueler.

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