Review: Thought-provoking
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
This felt like an essay-type story I would've read in Sci-Fi Class in college, so if any teachers are out there looking for material/prompts, check this out.First of all, I really liked the first person, expositional format this was written in. It's a really interesting way to tell this story, and it's perfect for something so short.Also, I like how this didn't go where I thought it was going to go. When you hear "aliens" and "everything changed," your mind automatically clicks over to so many alien invasion stories and movies with destruction and enslavement, etc. etc. This goes the completely opposite direction and becomes a really unique critique of our global society. Sometimes it takes an outside with objectivity to show the truth of what's going on, and aliens certainly would be capable of that for Earth. There were times when the author's personal opinions of what is wrong and what would fix it were a little bit simplistic, but at the very least this story raises questions and makes you think.And I really loved the end, which points at something deeply interesting about the nature of humanity, I think.I'd love to read a proper book-length followup to this.