I Read Stories: Timothy An Oral History by Michael Swanwick

Timothy: An Oral History by Michael Swanwick in Clarkesworld

Professor Humboldt was inspired by the de-extinction of mastodons. And because they could. So they re-created an extinct sub-set of humanity.

This slow burn, comic look at a society both like and unlike our own, and how it is turned upside down by the arrival of Timothy, is told to us through a whole sheaf of interviews. Everyone has their own opinion on what has occurred and none of them are at all interested in what we, the reader, want to know.

It’s funny, in a way that messily dissects it’s own premise.

Read This: A clever, skewed look at gender, society and arrogance
Don’t Read This: Fake oral histories are annoying; hiding the premise even more so