"Utopia, LOL" is a 2017 science fiction short story by Jamie Wahls. It was first published in Strange Horizons.
After Charlie is revived from suspended animation, Kit/dinaround is his guide to the distant future.
"Utopia, LOL" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2017. [1]
Tangent Online observed that despite Kit's essentially "scatterbrained" nature, the story ends on a "serious, and even inspiring" note. [2] Locus considered it to be "very nice", with a "resolution that snaps home beautifully", but criticized Wahls' portrayal of Kit as having a "somewhat anachronistic contemporary voice ( text-speak, essentially)" (while conceding that this could most likely be explained away as a translation). [3]
"Utopia, LOL" is a 2017 science fiction short story by Jamie Wahls. It was first published in Strange Horizons.
After Charlie is revived from suspended animation, Kit/dinaround is his guide to the distant future.
"Utopia, LOL" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2017. [1]
Tangent Online observed that despite Kit's essentially "scatterbrained" nature, the story ends on a "serious, and even inspiring" note. [2] Locus considered it to be "very nice", with a "resolution that snaps home beautifully", but criticized Wahls' portrayal of Kit as having a "somewhat anachronistic contemporary voice ( text-speak, essentially)" (while conceding that this could most likely be explained away as a translation). [3]