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The Stolen: Two Short Stories

Michelle Browne

Kindle Edition | Pages: 100 pages

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In "The Fields", Clarice is a governess on a small, remote backwater colony. Her previous misdemeanours in a nightmarishly controlling world have caught up to her, and she is taken in with other felons for re-education. Little does she know what this re-education will include...or its price. In "WordThieves", Sarah White is trapped in a nightmarishly bureaucratic peacenik paradise on Io. Spending her days daydreaming about untranslatable words and craving candy, her world is mostly idyllic. Until, that is, she runs into an old familiar face, and breaks the fragile tension holding her life together. What crimes are committed in the name of peace, control, and harmony? In a world where public violence is a distant memory and peer pressure is a mandated punishment, Clarice and Sarah are about to find out.

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Title	:	The Stolen: Two Short Stories
Author	:	Michelle Browne
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First edition
Pages	:	Pages: 100 pages
Published	:	August 31st 2012 by Smashwords (first published August 30th 2012)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction

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This book contains two short stories. They were both well-written and center around the themes of having our freedom to view the world around us how we want to view it, stolen. I do think that the second story, Word Thieves, could stand on its own, and I actually would have preferred for that story to be presented first, as the main story. It was a little jarring going from the first story, The Fields, to the second story as my brain tried to connect the two beyond theme.There were a few places

I really enjoyed both stories very much. They were original and extremely well-written. They seemed to loosely be based in the same universe, as there were subtle references to the world of the first story in the second.

I did not want to put this down, and was chafing so much when my son was using my Nook Color that I finally had to fix my Nook for PC just so I could finish this book. It's right up there with Ray Bradbury and Orson Scott Card.Both of these stories dealt with themes of maintaining one's independence at all costs. I really liked the first story, but my favorite between them was the second. I laughed audibly with glee when Sarah found the secret in the slightly thicker pages. I was wishing I could

Note: The author is a friend. No impact whatsoever on my opinion or review.Wow. I hope no one draws the wrong conclusions about my saying this, but I'm afraid I must compare, in a manner of speaking, Michelle Browne's "The Stolen" to William Gibson's Neuromancer. Before you bark, hear me out: I mean only to point out that my personal opinion about each, at least writing-wise, is similar.In my Neuromancer review, I mention how pretty much every sci-fi I'd ever read up until then suffered from

I recently reviewed Ms Brownes novella And the Stars Will Sing on my Galericulate blog and was suitably impressed.These dystopian short stories move her up another gear.Word Thieves, which owes something of its genesis to George Orwells 1984 (and indeed there is a character in it named Julia) is a tightly-constructed piece where she moves her characters towards hubris with a claustrophobic intensity. As with her earlier work, Ms Brownes vision of the future is not one comprised solely of shiny

I have not read science fiction in a while and this one is such a treat. Both of these stories are written with such depth and color. The attention to detail, the characters are all well rounded and you feel right along with them, each step and breath. The message that sneaks up on you and makes you look at what you take for granted, your freedom and liberty.It is not a new concept, this one of forcibly controlled lives, freedoms etc, but Michelles world build gives it a whole new window

The Stolen: Two Short Stories (the Meaning Wars) consists of two short stories set worlds apart in the same far distant future. However, in both societies citizens are carefully watched, their lives strictly regulated. Though similar in nature to 1984 by George Orwell, Ms. Browne has crafted her own unique tale complete with those who rebel against Big Brother. Im looking forward to reading more in The Meaning Wars series.