Insider's Report by Roderick D. Turner
Posted: February 25, 2015, 03:40:53 PM
This story didn't work for me. There's a lot of whiz-bang techno stuff and some vague hints of danger--and tons of deception--but at the end, I wasn't able to sort out who was who or who was on whose side. Belinda is tasked with stealing some kind of high-tech stuff, but since I have no idea who the parties are and what their conflict is, I couldn't get invested in the outcome.
The outcome itself is baffling. Bel plugs in the VR and finds it to be a perfect replay of what she just did. I'm lost, much in the way I get lost in time-travel paradoxes. Call this a VR paradox, then: did she do any of those things in real life, or is this a VR replication of another VR replication--? This is what I didn't like about The Matrix--I couldn't keep track of the layers.
This seems like a chunk taken out of some larger piece of work, and I have no context for it, so I can't discern the plot. Scenery and action are nicely detailed, but it's too much tech and no appreciable humanity.
The outcome itself is baffling. Bel plugs in the VR and finds it to be a perfect replay of what she just did. I'm lost, much in the way I get lost in time-travel paradoxes. Call this a VR paradox, then: did she do any of those things in real life, or is this a VR replication of another VR replication--? This is what I didn't like about The Matrix--I couldn't keep track of the layers.
This seems like a chunk taken out of some larger piece of work, and I have no context for it, so I can't discern the plot. Scenery and action are nicely detailed, but it's too much tech and no appreciable humanity.