Robert Carnegie <
rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
On 18/06/2025 16:49, Stefan Ram wrote:
The next story, "The Tree of Life" by Jennifer Rohn, is worth
checking out too. Like "Down and Out," it is pretty sad, and
the endings have a lot in common. So, I do not want to give
away too much, but in "The Tree of Life" I think I spotted a
kind of "logic slip", where something she tries really should
not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
to say the main character actually believes it might work,
so the logic slip is not really baked into the story itself.
You're reading a collection,
_Science Fiction By Scientists_ (2016) -
I think you didn't mention that information.
Oh, right on. Thanks for the extra info!
By now I've gotten through the third story. For the main character,
the stakes are lower here compared to the first two. You might
even say it's about what kind of findings from an experimental
dissertation would be enough to justify bugging a busy supervisor
for a face-to-face earlier than usual. So yeah, it's really about
science! With less on the line, you don't get quite as wrapped up
in it emotionally as with the first couple stories. By the way,
for all three stories so far, the main character has always been
a female scientist, even when the author was a guy.
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