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  • Maybe a logic slip

    From Stefan Ram@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Jun 19 01:49:02 2025
    The next story, "The Tree of Life" by Jennifer Rohn, is worth
    checking out too. Like "Down and Out," it is pretty sad, and
    the endings have a lot in common. So, I do not want to give
    away too much, but in "The Tree of Life" I think I spotted a
    kind of "logic slip", where something she tries really should
    not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
    to say the main character actually believes it might work,
    so the logic slip is not really baked into the story itself.



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  • From Robert Carnegie@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Jun 21 19:20:25 2025
    On 18/06/2025 16:49, Stefan Ram wrote:
    The next story, "The Tree of Life" by Jennifer Rohn, is worth
    checking out too. Like "Down and Out," it is pretty sad, and
    the endings have a lot in common. So, I do not want to give
    away too much, but in "The Tree of Life" I think I spotted a
    kind of "logic slip", where something she tries really should
    not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
    to say the main character actually believes it might work,
    so the logic slip is not really baked into the story itself.

    You're reading a collection,
    _Science Fiction By Scientists_ (2016) -
    I think you didn't mention that information.

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  • From Stefan Ram@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 23 03:36:24 2025
    Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
    On 18/06/2025 16:49, Stefan Ram wrote:
    The next story, "The Tree of Life" by Jennifer Rohn, is worth
    checking out too. Like "Down and Out," it is pretty sad, and
    the endings have a lot in common. So, I do not want to give
    away too much, but in "The Tree of Life" I think I spotted a
    kind of "logic slip", where something she tries really should
    not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
    to say the main character actually believes it might work,
    so the logic slip is not really baked into the story itself.
    You're reading a collection,
    _Science Fiction By Scientists_ (2016) -
    I think you didn't mention that information.

    Oh, right on. Thanks for the extra info!

    By now I've gotten through the third story. For the main character,
    the stakes are lower here compared to the first two. You might
    even say it's about what kind of findings from an experimental
    dissertation would be enough to justify bugging a busy supervisor
    for a face-to-face earlier than usual. So yeah, it's really about
    science! With less on the line, you don't get quite as wrapped up
    in it emotionally as with the first couple stories. By the way,
    for all three stories so far, the main character has always been
    a female scientist, even when the author was a guy.


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  • From Stefan Ram@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 23 21:53:51 2025
    ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
    not work - tragically enough! Still, it would not be a stretch
    to say the main character actually believes it might work,

    So, I think I might actually have an idea now for how it could work,
    and there are a few little hints about it in the story too.



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