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爆弾の頭

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Binge reader in her horror era.

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3% complete! 爆弾の頭 has read 1 of 30 books.

Duncan Ralston: Puzzle House (2023, Wicked House Publishing) 3 stars

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading …

Solid

3 stars

Content warning Somewhat spoiler-ish regarding the ending

Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1974, Pyramid Books) 4 stars

This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it …

I'll deliberately don't write about the plot in this post because I think I would've been more impressed if I didn't know that before reading. All that exposition doesn't happen in the beginning of the story either. And I guess reading lots of horror and splatterpunk in general gave me another disadvantage - I just wasn't shocked by anything. I do see certain parallels to "The Jaunt" by Stephen King, and King works for me everytime because he gives you time to connect to his characters even in short stories. Regarding "I Have No Mouth...", I just wasn't invested because it's so short. It paints an important picture about AI and supercomputers, tho.