Synopsis
A young man travels from his home near Saturn to Jupiter and back, having relationships along the way.
History
First publication: Strange Horizons, October 23, 2006
Review
This is my first try with Tidhar and I’m very disappointed. The writing is good and the characters are good. The problem is that the space setting is incidental. This story could easily have been located on present day Earth with only a little rewriting of details. There’s no idea here and the journey only documents the man’s sexual and drug encounters. A lot of time is spent on those details. If you want drugs and alternative/kinky sex, then this fits the bill. If you want a good story, look elswhere.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
All of the stories in the Solar System series:
Martian Sands
The Station Master
High Windows
Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs
The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Earthrise
The Memcordist
The Long Road to the Deep North
