{"id":1998,"date":"2021-12-12T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:00:40","slug":"orientation-by-adam-troy-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Orientation by Adam-Troy Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Orientation<\/em> <\/strong>by Adam-Troy Castro (<em>Analog<\/em>, January-February 2022) takes the form of an alien giving an orientation briefing to a human abductee (or more accurately, a facsimile of a human\u2014we learn from the briefing that the original remains untouched). We also learn, after various reassuring digressions caused by the off-stage questions from the human, about what is happening to them, where they are going, and the experiment in which they will have to participate.<br>This latter part, where the abductee is told (spoiler) that they will have to cooperate with another person\u2014someone they can\u2019t stand\u2014stretches credulity somewhat, and the story doesn\u2019t really convince. That said, this is entertainingly told, and has a great line: \u201cIt has become much more difficult to explain ourselves to our human test subjects, this past century or so. So many of you think you know everything.\u201d<br>**+ (Average-Good). 3,250 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orientation by Adam-Troy Castro (Analog, January-February 2022) takes the form of an alien giving an orientation briefing to a human abductee (or more accurately, a facsimile of a human\u2014we learn from the briefing that the original remains untouched). We also learn, after various reassuring digressions caused by the off-stage questions from the human, about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[347],"tags":[256,539,348,544,33,545,12],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-troy-castro","tag-2-5","tag-539","tag-adam-troy-castro","tag-alien-abduction","tag-analog","tag-cooperation","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}