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Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Three Eight One . Aliya Whiteley Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:06:17 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <vk2u09$39ppe$2@dont-email.me> Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:06:17 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a526efbac08d2ade295dc45720859605"; logging-data="3467054"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+34SlTnCGKwiAMKbro9Ol5" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:s+JLqVf3wa22iX/OUpLaogs6WBI= Content-Language: en-AU Three Eight One. Aliya Whiteley An author from 2314 attempts to understand life in 2024 by footnoting a quest story from that time. The quest story itself is unbelievably trite and boring as a front for life as we know it, with few social insights. The footnotes are real footnotes at the rear of the book but have to be read as soon as referenced in the text which is annoying even though handled easily by the Kindle. The footnotes are of a different authorial style thereby interrupting the flow of the 2024 story and also, with a completely differing content being from the perspective of a future society of shared consciousness where commercial and political disinformation and mythology no longer exist. I guess that the main purpose of the book was to develop an understanding of this future society through its analysis of 2024 society whilst questioning aspects of 2024, exploitation, government, etc, but I didn't read enough to find out. I read about 40% of the quest plus the appropriate footnotes so well over half the book but it was sending me to sleep so I stopped.