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Harrumph. Tried reading the top recommendation, "Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System" and was immediately thrown by this: "I’d always wanted to be
by fernly 4y ago
Harrumph. Tried reading the top recommendation, "Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System" and was immediately thrown by this:
"I’d always wanted to be a starship captain. Then I made it to flight school and learned the awful truth: being an interplanetary starship captain..."
Purported SF author does not realize that "interplanetary starship captain" is an oxymoron. Closed that tab.
The third one, though, "My Future Self, Refused"? very self-aware, highly "meta" time travel story where the protagonist is an SF writer who hates time travel stories. Good stuff.
- hedora 4y agoRegarding the “interplanetary starship captain”: (1) from what I can tell, the narrator is meant to be junior, and seems kind of chatty. Judging the author’s intelligence based based on that of their characters is questionable. (2) later, it sounds like the ship is interstellar-capable but the crew is junior and therefore stuck working in the solar system for the moment