This was pretty interesting. An examination of how differently two people who can see their possible futures handle their powers, their conflict about destiny vs free will, and how powerless they can feel sometimes - I thought this was a fascinating take on the topic and that end was definitely surprising. ( )

Pretty awesome Cassandra story, only it's a mirroring between absolute future knowledge and possible future knowledge, the two characters having a fight over which is correct.

And who knows? Both might still be!

What makes this pretty awesome is that it's a romance. Both fall in love, he can see everything, including how they break up. She can see tons of futures and fights with him to change things and try to keep their love strong instead of breaking up in six months, three days. :)

The details make this strong, however. :) I was very much charmed. :) ( )

clever and well written. The author has a gift, maybe even several. Also, there should be an award category for taking an absurd idea and spinning it into gold. Ted Chiang would probably win it, but still.

You can read it for free on Tor ( )

Judy and Doug are on their first date. They're probably the only two people in the world who can truly understand each other. Doug can see the future. Judy can see multiple possible futures. They've both been expecting this meeting. But how does it change us to know the future? This clever, brain-scrambling story poses impossible questions: if the future happens as we expected it to, does that mean that we know the future and the future is truly fixed, implacable; or does it simply mean that we've made the future we expected through a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy? Judy believes that it's possible to trick the future, to change tiny details which, later on, might open up an entirely different course. Doug, by contrast, is locked into his grim, ordained path, unable to see the point of looking more broadly. A tale of love, frustration and miscommunication, this is also a very clever (and award-winning) conceptual experiment.

For this review, and other short stories from Tor.com, please visit my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2017/04/20/more-short-stories-from-tor-com ( )

В оценке этого добра я очень субъективна.
Идея, конечно, хорошая, но мне больше всего понравилось место действия. Надо же, я и не думала, что можно соскучиться по Провиденсу)))
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