Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales: by Susan Kaye QuinnMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales is a collection of five short stories about a dark, AI-filled future and its consequences for human livelihoods. In these stories, Susan Kaye Quinn takes you to a future where humans have to sell themselves to the tech overlords for various reasons, or find their realities being distorted by the manipulation of digital archives and records around them.
I've been following Quinn's work for a long time and have loved her recent hopeful climate fiction. This collection feels darker than those, but still has that hopeful - or at least bitter sweet - taste at the end that reminds you that a vital part of our humanity is our ability to band together to make things better for ourselves. (Though, it's usually other humans on the other side who are using AI for nefarious reasons.)
Note: I received a digital ARC of this book from the author. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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