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| Title | : | The Stolen: Two Short Stories |
| Author | : | Michelle Browne |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 100 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2012 by Smashwords (first published August 30th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction |
Michelle Browne
Kindle Edition | Pages: 100 pages Rating: 4.06 | 80 Users | 20 Reviews
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In "The Fields", Clarice is a governess on a small, remote backwater colony. Her previous misdemeanours in a nightmarishly controlling world have caught up to her, and she is taken in with other felons for re-education. Little does she know what this re-education will include...or its price. In "WordThieves", Sarah White is trapped in a nightmarishly bureaucratic peacenik paradise on Io. Spending her days daydreaming about untranslatable words and craving candy, her world is mostly idyllic. Until, that is, she runs into an old familiar face, and breaks the fragile tension holding her life together. What crimes are committed in the name of peace, control, and harmony? In a world where public violence is a distant memory and peer pressure is a mandated punishment, Clarice and Sarah are about to find out.
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| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 80 Users | 20 ReviewsEvaluation Regarding Books The Stolen: Two Short Stories
Michelle Browne builds two very distinct dystopian worlds in these stories, yet somehow, I found them eerily similar in their themes of oppression and conformity. Both stories had a definite Orwellian cast, especially The Word Thieves with a central story of extreme censorship, zealous expectations of conformity and spies who watch for individual expression and unsanctioned behavior. Michelle's heroines are smart, sassy, free-thinker's who don't do well in these totalitarian societies and theyThe Stolen consisted of two short stories in the dystopia era. The first; The Fields tells of a governess who misbehaved (or so they say) and is sent to a reformatory with others like her. Each incarcerated for minor and I mean minor, infractions.Michelle describes a world where nothing seems to be pleasant but the main character, Clarice and her sidekick Margo make the best of the situation, sheer drudgery, lack of freedom, repressionunable enjoy pleasure, it was pure hell. But Clarice endured,
'The Stolen' contains 2 short sci-fi stories starring feisty females on dystopian worlds. 'The Fields' is the story of Clarice, a rule breaker sent to a sort of prison for governesses who misbehave. I found Clarice almost instantly likeable and I really sympathised with her. The repression she fights against is extreme - sexually suggestive items, such as stockings, are illegal yet she smuggles them in to the Reformatory with her. This is the shorter of the two stories and it's a great
Browns two stories, The Fields and The Word Thieves are both tales of censorship and repression in each female leads separate dystopian world. The Fields is an account of Clarices stay in a moral reform prison. Clarice is a fighter, and she keeps her spirit from breaking by continuing to enjoy brief conversations with other prisoners and her own sexuality, despite the fact that it could get her killed, or worse. This story was very short in length, but packed a punch through the narrators vivid
This book contains two short stories. They were both well-written and center around the themes of having our freedom to view the world around us how we want to view it, stolen. I do think that the second story, Word Thieves, could stand on its own, and I actually would have preferred for that story to be presented first, as the main story. It was a little jarring going from the first story, The Fields, to the second story as my brain tried to connect the two beyond theme.There were a few places
Note: The author is a friend. No impact whatsoever on my opinion or review.Wow. I hope no one draws the wrong conclusions about my saying this, but I'm afraid I must compare, in a manner of speaking, Michelle Browne's "The Stolen" to William Gibson's Neuromancer. Before you bark, hear me out: I mean only to point out that my personal opinion about each, at least writing-wise, is similar.In my Neuromancer review, I mention how pretty much every sci-fi I'd ever read up until then suffered from
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