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Uncanny Magazine
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LibraryThing member deva1984
Same person (also named Sarah) from multi-universe get together. An intriguing premise. Pseudo autobiography.
Thought it's a story about P/NP problem. But no >_
Thought it's a story about P/NP problem. But no >_
LibraryThing member lavaturtle
I really liked this fantastical mystery story. The central conceit, weird as it is, was handled thoughtfully and didn't feel gimmicky. The resolution made sense.
LibraryThing member isabelx
It was easy to tell who had just arrived. We were the ones planted in the lobby, bags in hand, eyes wide and mouth open. My body and face, even my expression, reflected back at me in two
hundred funhouse mirrors. Stranger even than that, an energy in the air that I couldn’t quite explain, a
I actually listened to Sarah Pinsker’s novella “And Then There Were (N-One)” on the Escape Pod podcast, but the novella isn’t listed on Goodreads so I’ve added the magazine it appeared in to my shelf.
A quantologist named Sarah Pinsker has recently proved the existence of the multiverse and this novella is set at SarahCon, a convention held in an alternate-reality resort hotel for of hundreds of Sarah Pinskers from different worlds.
It was a fun idea for the author to populate her story with copies of herself, and one of the attendees at SarahCon is a Nebula award winning science fiction author, but the protagonist is an insurance investigator, who is asked to investigate when another attendee is found dead, as she is the only version of Sarah Pinsker with a job that is in any way related to a detective.
The corpse, the person who found the body, the hotel manager who asks the insurance investigator for help, the convention committee and all the convention attendees are versions of Sarah Pinsker, only the rest of the hotel staff are not. As a result, the investigator has the same sort of problems as in “The Barbie Murders” by John Varley (another story that I really enjoyed), although it also gives her insight into the murderers motives and behaviour. I guessed right about some of the whodunnit and why, but not the whole thing. Very enjoyable.
hundred funhouse mirrors. Stranger even than that, an energy in the air that I couldn’t quite explain, a
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feeling that every single Sarah had stepped through to the exact same thought, to the same curious-amazement-horror-wonder, to the same rug-yanking confirmation that the invitation had been real and we were no longer alone, or maybe we were more alone than we had ever been.I actually listened to Sarah Pinsker’s novella “And Then There Were (N-One)” on the Escape Pod podcast, but the novella isn’t listed on Goodreads so I’ve added the magazine it appeared in to my shelf.
A quantologist named Sarah Pinsker has recently proved the existence of the multiverse and this novella is set at SarahCon, a convention held in an alternate-reality resort hotel for of hundreds of Sarah Pinskers from different worlds.
It was a fun idea for the author to populate her story with copies of herself, and one of the attendees at SarahCon is a Nebula award winning science fiction author, but the protagonist is an insurance investigator, who is asked to investigate when another attendee is found dead, as she is the only version of Sarah Pinsker with a job that is in any way related to a detective.
The corpse, the person who found the body, the hotel manager who asks the insurance investigator for help, the convention committee and all the convention attendees are versions of Sarah Pinsker, only the rest of the hotel staff are not. As a result, the investigator has the same sort of problems as in “The Barbie Murders” by John Varley (another story that I really enjoyed), although it also gives her insight into the murderers motives and behaviour. I guessed right about some of the whodunnit and why, but not the whole thing. Very enjoyable.
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LibraryThing member tldegray
2018 Hugo Awards Best Novella Nominee
I suspect I've read this story at least five times since it was first published. I absolutely adore it.
I suspect I've read this story at least five times since it was first published. I absolutely adore it.
Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Novella — 2018)
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novella — 2017)
Locus Award (Finalist — Novella — 2018)
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (Finalist — 2018)
Original publication date
2017
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