What was everyone's favorite story this time? My favorite is "The Mists of Time". I enjoyed reading the different points-of-view of the event. It made the battle feel more real because there was more than one opinion of it. I also liked how it showed how subjective history is. Any 3 people can see the same event happen, and view it in 3 completely different ways.
I liked all of the main characters, except for Giva. She was annoying. But I'm pretty sure she was supposed to be irritating, because that's what Emory thought of her, and we only heard about her through his point-of-view.
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I think the "Mist of Time" was my favorite too. I liked how it talked about how the physics that allows for time travel is completely paradoxical in nature.
ReplyDeleteHeh, I think "The Mists of Time" may be my least favorite. I really enjoyed "Roxie", mostly because I am a huge animal lover (especially of dogs), so I could relate to the interactions the narrator described with Roxie. I also liked the final message he delivered. This universe, as predictable as man has tried to make it, is still full of unknown wonder. The fact that we could cease to exist as a civilization, planet, or galaxy at any moment is extremely humbling and just makes me thankful for having the chance to live and experience life.
ReplyDeleteEric, your comment makes me think about us ceasing to exist, and what that means. I started to think that our life was very fragile, but then I began to look at it as life and not human life. That's not nearly as fragile, though still pretty dang fragile. What if, instead of sending out astronauts into space to communicate with distant civilizations, we sent out life forms that conveyed a message? What an interesting story that would form from the idea that were able to design a form of life that, if it could infect and colonize a planet over billions of years, would eventually produce earthlike life? Talk about Frankenstein's monster! If our purpose in the world is for, in the words of Carl Sagan, 'the cosmos to know itself, we've got our goals all wrong; we should be trying to spread life in general to other systems...
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