Short-a-Day: George Saunders's "Escape from Spiderhead"
Originally published in The New Yorker, Dec. 20, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 69.What makes us human? What makes us tick? This is the sort of unanswerable philosophical conundrum some turn to fiction for, and what I, particularly, appreciate about the speculative satires of George Saunders, who takes things to extremes in order to deal with some very basic truths. In this possible future, Jeff …
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