Review: How we got here again
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2011
I've had so many short stories stored on my Kindle that I thought it's about time I read and reviewed them.  This one, Benevolent Influence by Chris Turner, is a science fiction story about a group of aliens called Cuyrnes that are floating brains by night, suspended in tanks of liquid, tended to by Slave Wards from Mu Cassiopeiae A IV. We read about the development of many of the dinosaurs, but 40 million years after the duckbill, the Cuyrnes didn't like the Nodosaurus, a quadruped, because of their docile vegetarianism.  As Turner so nicely says, "The iridium plate glistened eerily under Sol's glare as the ages passed."Homo erectus appears and finally Homo neanderthalensis.  A lot takes place in between these eras. The story moves slowly without much excitement.  I finished it, but it took a little bit of force to make myself complete the reading.  For real science fiction fans, there may be more enjoyment in this story.