Review: Not Quite of This World
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2013
Alienated is another fine collection of speculative weirdness from Milo Fowler. "In His Eyes" and "Mo's" consider an earth that humans now share with an alien race, the big grays. We don't like them and we don't trust them, but we need them. In "Reverie" the tables are turned as humans are enslaved to an omnipotent, alien presence that controls the human workforce through dreams. Your thoughts are no longer your own and unauthorized thoughts are deadly. "Insight" is a haunting tale about a sculptress with a sixth sense. My favorite is "Doppelgänger Mine," a first person narrative that documents a young man's terror as he's stalked by his doppelgänger. Fowler reinvents the malevolet double from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's world and throws in a metafictional twist of his own. If you enjoyed Fowler'sIdentity Thief, you'll like "Doppelgänger Mine."