Reseña de relato corto: That Game We Played During the War

 

That Game We Played During the War 

by  

Carrie Vaughn

 16 pages

Published March 16th 2016 by Tor.com

ISBN: 0765389355 (ISBN13: 9780765389350)

Edition Language: English

URL

http://www.tor.com/2016/03/16/that-game-we-played-during-the-war/

Literary Awards

Hugo Award Nominee for Best Short Story (2017), Locus Award Nominee for Best Short Story (2017)

 

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Some said Enith and Gaant were two sides of the same coin; they would never see eye to eye and would always fight over the same spit of land between their two continents. But their differences were simple, one might say: only in their minds.

Calla is a nurse. Valk a militar. Once time prisioners of war in the other camp.
Chess is a strategy game. Except when is not.

This is a wistful short story about two peoples at war for a long time and who have now ceased fire pending a treaty. It is a story about how compassion is essential to open paths of understanding and how many times it is much better to look for a strategy where you don't exactly win, but nobody loses.

“This is how you won,” one of them said, amazed. He wasn’t talking about the game.

“No,” Calla said. “This is how we failed to lose.”

And that when you want, you can find a common ground despite our differences.

But... The part that satisfies no one in this story is not knowing how both races exist here disputing that continent, some being telepaths and others not. And speaking different languages. (Hmm, maybe an invasion or colonization that went wrong as a LeGuin story?)


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Calla es una enfermera. Valk un militar. Una vez fueron prisioneros de guerra del otro bando.
Ajedrez es un juego de estrategia. Salvo cuando no lo es.

Esta es un historia corta acerca de dos pueblos en guerra por mucho tiempo y que ahora han cesado el fuego en espera de un tratado. Es una historia acerca de como la compasión es fundamental para abrir caminos de entendimiento y como muchas veces es mucho mejor buscar una estrategia donde no precisamente se gane, sino que nadie pierda. Y que cuando se quiere, se puede encontrar un campo común a pesar de nuestras diferencias.

La parte que a nadie satisface en este relato es el desconocer como ambas razas existen aqui disputando dicho continente, siendo unos telépatas y otros no. Y hablando distintos idiomas. (Hmm, ¿quizas una invasión o colonización que salio mal como una historia de LeGuin?)

La pueden encontrar aqui:
https://www.tor.com/2016/03/16/that-g...