Utopia, LOL?

"Utopia, LOL" is a 2017 science fiction short story by Jamie Wahls. It was first published in Strange Horizons.

Synopsis

After Charlie is revived from suspended animation, Kit/dinaround is his guide to the distant future.

Reception

"Utopia, LOL" was a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.[1]

Tangent Online observed that despite Kit's essentially "scatterbrained" nature, the story ends on a "serious, and even inspiring" note.[2] Locus considered it to be "very nice", with a "resolution that snaps home beautifully", but criticized Wahl's portrayal of Kit as having a "somewhat anachronistic contemporary voice (text-speak, essentially)" (while conceding that this could most likely be explained away as a translation).[3]

gollark: My idea for the tunnels was that they would be maybe 5x3 and we could just pack in cables as needed, plus an electric railway.
gollark: Yes, but we can put a cell directly on its output ports (or use expensive cables to connect to one) and drain from multiple sides of that.
gollark: We don't actually need paired fluxducts, due to that quirk of their transfer rates. I think.
gollark: Anyway, we can probably just run some itemducts in the planned power cabling tunnels, so it's not too problematic.
gollark: Unless you make the reactor building very big.

References
  1. Utopia, LOL, at Science Fiction Writers of America; published June 2, 2018
  2. Strange Horizons, June 5, 2017, reviewed by Victoria Silverwolf; published June 5, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2018
  3. Rich Horton reviews Short Fiction: August 2017, by Rich Horton, in Locus; published October 19, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2018
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