Saturday, January 7, 2017
Please Report Any Changes, by Scott Marengo
The last of my Wired Science Fiction issue reviews. Please Report Any Changes is just a sad one, really from any time, about those who share their lives to alleviate their loneliness. The narrator is part of a Belsen family, one whose every activity is monitored for a ratings service. He's proud of it and his social life consists of relating to the technician assigned to his account. But when his wife moves out he doesn't report the change, and eventually the service isn't interested in him anymore. All the Lonely People. It's sad but not terribly enlightening, though it is decently written. In the end I can't give it more than 2 stars.
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