
story, with a lot of thought given to the topic. Though the initial premise seems like something very much overdone, a tale about VR gaming, it actually turns into a fascinating and mind-warping A.I. The best of the Forward collection comes second in line.


This is by far the weakest of the stories in sci-fi concepts and sheer mental stimulation, but it’s also relaxing in a morbid sort of way and has a lot of beautiful-if perhaps cluttered-prose. Ark by Veronica RothĪ mood piece more than a think-piece, I feel like the author might have been going through some personal stuff here, or perhaps thinking deeply about someone else’s trials. There’s six in all, so I thought I’d cover my thoughts on each of these tales. Turns out, if you have Prime, it’s free, and each short story is interesting in its own way.

It was an accident that I found out about the Forward collection on Amazon Prime-but I’m so happy I did.
