Reality Check
By David Brin
3.5/5
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Do you ever get that sense of deja vu...a feeling that you've experienced something before? As computers get more and more complex, they are able to replicate the nature of reality in ever finer detail. How would we recognize if we were living in a computer simulation – a highly accurate world of virtual reality? Perhaps this isn't your first time...
David Brin
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you are still not sure of where you are, check out the much better story Stones of Significance also by David Brin.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It didn't develop anything, including interest. I think longer could have been better. Two stars is generous.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ridiculously short, but quite sweet.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This has much depth for such a short short story. The reader is immediately immersed, such that they will have to consider their own role within the fundamental questions the narrative raises. It’s fair to the story to let it explain itself rather than try to share anymore here.