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pluralstories2025-05-26 06:40 pm
lb_lee) wrote in pluralstories2025-05-26 06:40 pm
Entry tags:
- 1+:abuse:not mentioned,
- 1+:cofronting,
- 1+:people:nonhumans,
- 1+:relationships:family,
- 1+:relationships:teamwork,
- 1+:type:on purpose,
- 1+:type:setting-specific,
- 1+:type:switching,
- access:audio/dubbing,
- access:backed up,
- access:lb local copy,
- access:online,
- access:screenreadable,
- audience:adults,
- audience:teens,
- genre:sci-fi,
- length:short,
- medium:audio,
- medium:writing,
- price:free,
- time:2020s
Zeta-Epsilon by Isabel J. Kim (science fiction short story, 2023)
Submitted by beepbird! Thanks, beepbird!
"Zed didn’t say that you were the ones that called her my sister, and it’s too late, now I have always loved her and she has always loved me, and I cannot imagine thinking without her."
Blurb: A man brainshares with the spaceship he lives on... and does everything in his power to get her back.
Why is it worth your time?: This has pretty explicit parallels to multiplicity- to the point that the narrative itself asks the question of whether Epsilon is an alter and/or tulpa at one point. It's also one of those rare narratives where separation is presented as a negative, where the system wants to share brainspace- and where being plural is the happy ending.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse not mentioned, nonhumans (spaceship), family, teamwork, setting-specific, switching, cofronting, on purpose
Content Warnings: Main character fakes own death by suicide, conscious surgery without pain
Accessibility Notes: Audio and text freely available at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_03_23/. (Back-up link here.) You can also purchase a print edition or ebook of the magazine this is hosted in from a bunch of sources linked on that page if you'd like. Also holy moly, this story has been anthologized a LOT!
beepbird! Thanks, beepbird!"Zed didn’t say that you were the ones that called her my sister, and it’s too late, now I have always loved her and she has always loved me, and I cannot imagine thinking without her."
Blurb: A man brainshares with the spaceship he lives on... and does everything in his power to get her back.
Why is it worth your time?: This has pretty explicit parallels to multiplicity- to the point that the narrative itself asks the question of whether Epsilon is an alter and/or tulpa at one point. It's also one of those rare narratives where separation is presented as a negative, where the system wants to share brainspace- and where being plural is the happy ending.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse not mentioned, nonhumans (spaceship), family, teamwork, setting-specific, switching, cofronting, on purpose
Content Warnings: Main character fakes own death by suicide, conscious surgery without pain
Accessibility Notes: Audio and text freely available at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_03_23/. (Back-up link here.) You can also purchase a print edition or ebook of the magazine this is hosted in from a bunch of sources linked on that page if you'd like. Also holy moly, this story has been anthologized a LOT!