The central idea is believable, both in terms of the horrible business model of the company and the idea of abandoned DRMed properties.ĪI robots are a thing and so is the ability to register your gender and sexuality. Only, the Earth has been mostly abandoned in a mass exodus and the company is now defunct on Earth leaving many people unable to unlock their emotions. Lockpick, Locked Heart | AnaMaria Curtis ★★★☆☆Ī company provides a service where you can sell it your ability to feel a particular emotion, after which when you would feel that emotion, instead you see a paywall notification and you feel numb instead. I think this one is a bit of a stretch in terms of the remit of the anthology, but it was ok. I'm reading The Reinvented Heart and I wanted to keep track of my thoughts on the anthology.Ī researcher has terrible biohazard containment while investigating a paleontological fungal spore and ends up with a symbiotic contamination that experiences love with its host. Overall I thought it was a really great idea for an anthology that mostly stayed on topic with successful results. I'm going to list out the individual stories and how I rated them. Our Savage Heart Calls to Itself (Across the Endless Tides) by Justina Robson If My Body Is a Temple, Raze It to the Ground by Lauren RingĮtruscan Afterlife by Rosemary Claire Smith The Star-Crossed Horoscope for Interstellar Travelers by Fran Wilde Go Where the Heart Takes You by Anita Ensal No Pain but That of Memory by Aimee Ogden Little Deaths and Missed Connections by Maria Dong
The Shape of the Particle by Naomi Kritzer With All Souls Still Aboard by Premee Mohamed Lockpick, Locked Heart by AnaMaria Curtis Poem: They: A Grammar Lesson by Jane Yolen
The Reinvented Heart presents stories that complicate sex and gender by showing how shifting technology may affect social attitudes and practices, stories that include relationships with communities and social groups, stories that reinvent traditional romance tropes and recast them for the 21st century, and above all, stories that experiment, astonish, and entertain. What will relationships look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge possibilities of new genders and ways of thinking about them? Science fiction often focuses on future technology and science without considering the ways social structures will change as tech changes - or not. What happens when emotions like love and friendship span vast distances - in space, in time, and in the heart?
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