Rseña: In Xanadu (short story)

In Xanadu 

by 

Lavie Tidhar

Illustrated by John Anthony Di Giovanni

My rating: 3.5

This sounds like the prologue of a more longer story . Was just the first taste of a space opera conspiracy or war.

Nila is part of a Clan with the mission of protect Others (like digital entities). She is bored in Titan because nothing ever happen (so a young one) but one day the patrol found intruders.

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‘Yes, I know you are Banu Qattmir.’

‘How?’ Nila demanded, outraged. In all this time she’d never met anyone from the outside. No one had ever come in, only authorised members of External Audits. To have someone just barge in like this through the perimeter, as though it were nothing!

‘I did some work for the Clan a couple of centuries back,’ the robot said. ‘Off-site contract work. After that we kept in touch…You know how it is.’
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I was a bit confussed until well part of the last third of the story and when is was just getting to the good stuff... the end. I hope the author is thinking of continuing this.

Aqui en linea: https://www.tor.com/2019/11/06/in-xanadu-lavie-tidhar/