Enjoyable short story

If you have read Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari you will be intrigued and possibly alarmed by the idea that we are probably one of the last few generations of natural human beings. In our quest to constantly improve ourselves, the future human race is unlikely to be pure human but some kind of cyborg or genetically engineered entity. This short story explores this theme and is pretty bleak in places. If you could live for ever, would you want to? What if that life did not include the ones you love? What if it was forced on you? What if - in some ways - you were not really “you” any more?

This worked as a short story and kept me entertained for an hour or so. There was the odd slightly clunky grammar such as (paraphrasing as I cannot remember word for word) “my body could no longer sustain itself any more”. The last two words are redundant or it could be rephrased. Nitpicking but small things like this can prevent the reader properly dropping into a story

Also my pet hate is the phrase “she swallowed hard”, which always catches my ear. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone swallow hard when stressed yet it is commonly written

In the story, a small amount of irregular work seemed to allow for stays in lavish hotels. Still, who am I to question how economics works on another place and another time?

Anyway, I enjoyed it. Let’s hope the future is not THIS future

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