“Search Engine” is a Big Brother story. The government, if it can be called a government, is storing data of the movement of every person through an company called Search Engine, Inc. However, there is so much data that it is nearly impossible to interpret it to fond anyone.Enter the noir-styled private eye who has a hacker’s skill for compiling and interpreting information and no one can hide, no one is truly off the grid. Our dick, Aman, has been hired to find a Gaiiest, a member of a new organization that tries to hide from Big Brother by buying unprocessed food and items that they believe are untagged and untraceable.
For Aman, finding this Gaiiest is child’s play. There is only one person that could hide from Aman, his son. His son is also a Gaiiest and has chosen to live without the traceable conveniences of the modern world.
Like most noir, the dick is a nice guy and like a cat over curious about the subject he is pursuing. Rosenblum has me tricked with the twists and turns in her story. I did not catch on to Aman’s real intent in taking this case from the government agent until it was spelled out at the end. I won’t ruin it for you. You will just have to find the story and read it.
This will be my last review of a story included in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology for this issue. Check back next month for more. If you can’t already tell, I absolutely love this anthology.
Rosenblum, Mary. “Search Engine.” Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2007. p. 369 – 388
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