(Drivebycuriosity) - The world is getting more and more complex, and so is science fiction. Naomi Kritzer belongs to the new crowd of females who enrich the genre with funny ideas. Her short story collection "Cat picture please and other stories" (amazon ) deals with a lot of topics like sex toys for humans, who are married with aliens, a Golem in Prague, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) who likes cat pictures, male robots for single females, cooking recipes and much more.
Mrs. Kritzer can write and she has hilarious ideas but I prefer hard science fiction, which uses sciences and logic, today represented by authors like Nancy Kress, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Liu Cixin or Gregory Benford.
PS. I bought the book because I had enjoyed her short story "Liberty´s daughter", which I found in the collection “Year`s Best SF 18” by David G. Hartwell. This is a near future story set in a libertarian economy on tiny independent states before the US west coast (on man made islands like ships and other floating platforms). An amateur detective tries to find a missing woman and comes across a sinister crime. Kritzer wrote an interesting plot with twists and blent it with plausible speculations about alternative economic models. (here my review). Unfortunately not in this anthology.
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