The Republic of Empathy

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Lipsych, Sam. "The Republic of Empathy." The New Yorker 28 May 2012.[1]

Discussed briefly by Kathleen Ann Goonan in "The Science Fiction Issue: Exploring a New Liminality" essay on the Science Fiction issue(s) of The New Yorker in SFRA Review #301 (Summer 2012): p.52.[2]

Goonan notes that the story "features a drone who believes she is a woman with free will. At nearly the end of the story, Drone Reaper Sister 5 argues with Base Jango Rindhart, the dronemaster, before she blows up a character we meet (nonlinearly, so to speak, as in Pulp Fiction), in the first segment of the story." Goonan notes similarities with the lead character another story in the 2012 Science Fiction issues of The New Yorker, "Black Box," in that the drone in "Republic of Empathy" and its fate "echoes Beauty’s similar use as a weapon, her lack of free will, and her near-fate (she seems to be rescued at the last instant, but may be hallucinating)."


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