And finally, A Fall Counts Anywhere-Catherynne M. Valente
We close out this collection with Robots vs. Fairies in a WWE style brawl.
I like how in the aAnd finally, A Fall Counts Anywhere-Catherynne M. Valente
We close out this collection with Robots vs. Fairies in a WWE style brawl.
I like how in the author bios, everyone’s is normal except Scalzi’s, which is a single sentence proclaiming him to be a biological human who writes.
Overall, a strong collection. Every short story collection has a story or two that don’t work for me, but even the duds were well written.
(Individual story notes can be found in my activity on this book)...more
The plot was pretty standard fair, which is why it’s 3 stars. But as an autistic person, when I read books with autistic characters I like to talk aboThe plot was pretty standard fair, which is why it’s 3 stars. But as an autistic person, when I read books with autistic characters I like to talk about the accuracy of the representation.
So, Tara is our autistic character, and my biggest issue is that she falls into the specialized super genius trope. She’s a robotics genius, specifically of the titular Watchdogs.
But there’s a lot of good, accurate stuff too. •Tara has a couple of meltdowns over the course of the book, because she’s dealing with some very stressful situations. She is able to delay them to get to safety first, and the first time that happens, she’s able to stave it off basically overnight, which seems unlikely, but once she’s safe, it all pours out. •In one scene, Tara stays up all night because she hyperfocused on a robotics project. •Tara has some routines, and a lot of them were interrupted not too long before the book starts, and she expresses a desire to get back to them. •Tara has hyperempathy for some inanimate objects, like her robots, some paintings in a museum, and some other familiar objects from her life before the story starts.
Tara’s brother Vick is our POV character, and he’s a pretty good brother. Sometimes he gets a little frustrated by Tara, but on the whole he accepts that this is who she is. I get the sense though, that he views her more like a younger sister than a twin. Maybe it’s because Vick’s more worried about their day to day survival, and Tara doesn’t really think about that, she focus on robotics, which is where their income comes from....more
It's midnight as I write this, but I had to finish the book and get these feelings out because holy hell was that an adrenaline rush of an ending. It's midnight as I write this, but I had to finish the book and get these feelings out because holy hell was that an adrenaline rush of an ending. ...more
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