“The Calculus Plague” is a wonderful story about the future of marketing. Imagine a world where you possessed memories not of your making. These false memories feel real and are real, but they are not your own. You did not eat that wonderful tasting salad at the local restaurant, but you remember how fresh the tomatoes were and how crisp the lettuce was, and you want another one. You have step foot in that restaurant but you remember it as clear as day. This is the world that Lingen’s story offers up.The story is a beginning. A professor and his graduate assistants have mad a discovery, memories can be transferred by piggy-backing them on viruses from person to person. These memories start out simple enough, Calculus; people begin to remember having taken a specific Calculus class that they never attended. Then these memories begin to become more intense.
One lone professor stands in opposition to these false memories. Will she act quickly enough before more sinister forces are able to use this new technology for nefarious agendas? Well, you will have to read to find out.
“The Calculus Plague” is one more good reason to check out the latest issue of Analog.
Lingen, Marissa K. “The Calculus Plague.” Analog . July / August 2009, Vol. CXXIX, No. 7 & 8. P. 142 - 145
1 comments:
I still haven't read any of Lingen's fiction.
Which is nuts.
I have a story of hers bookmarked on my computer and I know she has a host of them available, she was a good panelist at Fourth Street last year AND she's a Minnesotan.
Why again have I not read any of her stories?
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