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EP134: Me and My Shadow

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews

With­out ques­tion, Me and My Shadow the best episode of Escape Pod I’ve lis­tened to in quite some time. It’s got just the per­fect amount of creepi­ness to suck me into the story, rather than send­ing me run­ning for cover. Addi­tion­ally the level of tech seems entirely believ­able in that we could the­o­ret­i­cally be doing this to crim­i­nals in the real world within a gen­er­a­tion of now¹. Those two fac­tors are blended together into a tasty treat² by the writ­ing of Mike Resnick and Stephen Eley’s read­ing of the work.

¹ As rule I pre­fer my Sci-Fi to be extrap­o­lated from exist­ing sci­ence to have believ­able future tech rather than wildly unlikely tech­nol­ogy. Though if some­thing with wildly unlikely tech has an inter­est­ing story or char­ac­ters that can be fun too (e.g. Old Man's War by John Scalzi).
² I’m glad lunch is com­ing up soon, I’m start­ing to get pretty hungery. *smile*

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