There’s a hole in the story, and everything works up toįilling it. The narrative unfolds in two parallel tracks, one starting at the beginning andīuilding to the climax, and one starting at the end, detailing theĪftermath and slowly building to the point where you find out what theĬlimax was. The result was awful, and tragic, and moving,Īnd worth overlooking any flaws that came before. But you know what? None of that mattered. “I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE,” observing structure, and cataloging flaws Reading it my critic brain ran a constant parallel track, noting This tale hit me on emotional, intellectual, and visceral levels. Sufficient time has passed when it comes to spoilers. The Sparrow won the Clarke award back in 1998, so I feel like It compares to the most tragic stories I’ve ever read,įull stop, except that non-fiction must trump fiction when it comes to Sparrow must be the single most tragic science fiction story I’ve ever
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