Review: Short but interesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2012
Sagan's Law by Thomas K. Carpenter delivers a lot of intensity and texture for such a short story.  It paints the portrait future of a digital immersion world, the rosy highlights and the bleak undertones;  it portrays a woman whose life has just been shattered, her attempts to cope while caring for one child and another,illegal conception, on the way.  There is so much subtext going on in the story that the point of it all could become lost, but somehow it all relates to create a powerful ending.I read this short story, and The Cageless Zoo, back to back in the same sitting, and Sagan's Law is the superior of the two by an order of magnitude.