Michelle Browne
Kindle Edition | Pages: 100 pages Rating: 4.06 | 80 Users | 20 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Stolen: Two Short Stories |
| Author | : | Michelle Browne |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 100 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2012 by Smashwords (first published August 30th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction |
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In "The Fields", Clarice is a governess on a small, remote backwater colony. Her previous misdemeanours in a nightmarishly controlling world have caught up to her, and she is taken in with other felons for re-education. Little does she know what this re-education will include...or its price.In "WordThieves", Sarah White is trapped in a nightmarishly bureaucratic peacenik paradise on Io. Spending her days daydreaming about untranslatable words and craving candy, her world is mostly idyllic. Until, that is, she runs into an old familiar face, and breaks the fragile tension holding her life together.
What crimes are committed in the name of peace, control, and harmony? In a world where public violence is a distant memory and peer pressure is a mandated punishment, Clarice and Sarah are about to find out.
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Ratings: 4.06 From 80 Users | 20 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books The Stolen: Two Short Stories
I really enjoyed both stories very much. They were original and extremely well-written. They seemed to loosely be based in the same universe, as there were subtle references to the world of the first story in the second.I'm new to reading Dystopian, so maybe I am not the best person to give a review but here goes. Let me start with the best first. "The Word-Thieves" captured my interest right away. So much of what is happening in this story we may be on the very brink of today. In a day, when people seem easily threatened by words, many must pussy foot around what words to use for fear of hurting someones feelings. It makes the reader, wonder where will this restraint of our free speech end, especially as you
This is Nic's wife writing the review.Michelle Browne is an engaging writer- I've read some of her other stuff, too. She does pick fun concepts, and has unique twists to add to the dystopian formula. I don't think these stories are some of her stronger work, since although the characters are well written, they aren't quite able to build a society around the dystopian elements. In the first one, especially, the information on the evolution of the thought-police type state is pretty vague. At any
I recently reviewed Ms Brownes novella And the Stars Will Sing on my Galericulate blog and was suitably impressed.These dystopian short stories move her up another gear.Word Thieves, which owes something of its genesis to George Orwells 1984 (and indeed there is a character in it named Julia) is a tightly-constructed piece where she moves her characters towards hubris with a claustrophobic intensity. As with her earlier work, Ms Brownes vision of the future is not one comprised solely of shiny
The Stolen consisted of two short stories in the dystopia era. The first; The Fields tells of a governess who misbehaved (or so they say) and is sent to a reformatory with others like her. Each incarcerated for minor and I mean minor, infractions.Michelle describes a world where nothing seems to be pleasant but the main character, Clarice and her sidekick Margo make the best of the situation, sheer drudgery, lack of freedom, repressionunable enjoy pleasure, it was pure hell. But Clarice endured,
Note: The author is a friend. No impact whatsoever on my opinion or review.Wow. I hope no one draws the wrong conclusions about my saying this, but I'm afraid I must compare, in a manner of speaking, Michelle Browne's "The Stolen" to William Gibson's Neuromancer. Before you bark, hear me out: I mean only to point out that my personal opinion about each, at least writing-wise, is similar.In my Neuromancer review, I mention how pretty much every sci-fi I'd ever read up until then suffered from
The Stolen by Michelle BrowneThe Stolen is made up of two novellas, The Fields and The Word Thieves.The Fields opens in a prison during the evening hours. The inmates have just arrived at their newest home. The heroine, Clarice, is describing the accommodations, and lists her few possessions. She has managed to smuggle in a few necessary items. After arising the next morning, the inmates are separated according to sex, as they prepare for breakfast. Many collapse from apparent or alleged stress,
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