Where - Kit Reed
Early one morning, the entire population of a tiny island off the Carolina coast disappears, causing grief and frustration among the relatives and friends left behind on the neighbouring island and mainland.
Two of the three main threads follow a woman and a visiting property speculator who are among the abducted and the other tracks the woman's boyfriend. The couple fall out badly because of the speculator and thus the man is on the mainland when the disappearance happens.
Like them, I became very frustrated with events, or lack of them!
15 pages to go and still no real clues to what's happening.
The Rapture? Aliens? A student prank!? A host of even less likely surmises? Nobody knows, except maybe the smarmy visitor and he's deliberately winding up the woman by hinting he knows but isn't telling...
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It's really about coping with loss, and grief, and relationships, and, while I take a very broad view of what counts as science fiction, I'm not at all persuaded that this is inside my boundaries. With a different approach, maybe it could have been a weird, new-wave story, but it would need to have been seriously re-written!
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file under 'unsolved paranormal events'
Where - Kit Reed
Early one morning, the entire population of a tiny island off the Carolina coast disappears, causing grief and frustration among the relatives and friends left behind on the neighbouring island and mainland.
Two of the three main threads follow a woman and a visiting property speculator who are among the abducted and the other tracks the woman's boyfriend. The couple fall out badly because of the speculator and thus the man is on the mainland when the disappearance happens.
Like them, I became very frustrated with events, or lack of them!
15 pages to go and still no real clues to what's happening.
The Rapture? Aliens? A student prank!? A host of even less likely surmises? Nobody knows, except maybe the smarmy visitor and he's deliberately winding up the woman by hinting he knows but isn't telling...
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It's really about coping with loss, and grief, and relationships, and, while I take a very broad view of what counts as science fiction, I'm not at all persuaded that this is inside my boundaries. With a different approach, maybe it could have been a weird, new-wave story, but it would need to have been seriously re-written!
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file under 'unsolved paranormal events'