A nicely written and compact short story today, Ted Chiang’s “What’s Expected Of Us”, from his collection Stories of Your Life and Others.
This piece is almost a pure thought experiment, and its framing addresses “you” (the reader) but there are really no characters or even a setting to speak of; and yet it still tells a compulsive story centering around the nature of free will.
Literary Fruit rating: 7 out of 10.
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