There are gaps in all human relationships where information is withheld, and machines can fill them with inference—or with harder data from another source.
The playing field, of course, is not yet level—but Tidhar’s selections for this book seem to offer a substantial case that the world has indeed changed.
The Membranes can stand on its own as a pitch-perfect meditation on medical advances, transplantation, advanced technology, loneliness, memory, and love.
his is no chilling dystopia, with an easily identifiable totalitarian power centre, but rather, a series of “micro-dystopias,” so to say, which together constitute a distinctly unappealing world for most of the people who live in it.
