WHERE CREDIT IS DUE by Edward M. Lerner

This is a very short story, Flash Fiction, if you will that treads on the edge of being antidotal.

It is about the economy and politics and presidents who try to appeal to the public in such a way as to placate, calm, and confuse. It is a very timely piece. Bush won’t do anything. McCain believes in the Bush plan. Obama wants to provide more handouts. I don’t like any of these non-solutions.

In the story, the president wants the people to believe that a new computer system will be able to aptly access the problem and provide solutions. This new system will be up and running soon. Until then, the people should hang tight. We wouldn’t want to do anything without the help of a computer.

The writing is very well put down on the page. I’m angry from word one, which seems to be the point of the story, to make the reader angry. However, it is a good story. I’m almost always impressed with the Probability Zero section each month.

Well done!

Lerner, Edward M. “Where Credit is Due.” Analog. October 2008, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 10. P. 74 - 75