{"id":336,"date":"2021-01-17T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T12:47:39","slug":"i-didnt-buy-it-by-naomi-kanakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"I Didn\u2019t Buy It by Naomi Kanakia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>I Didn\u2019t Buy It<\/em><\/strong> by Naomi Kanakia (<em>Asimov\u2019s SF<\/em>, January\/February 2021) starts with an android called Reznikov being abused by his female owner until a friend of hers calls the police and she is arrested. After this Reznikov rips out his transponder and lives wild until he meets another woman and starts living with her. The rest of the story details their relationship (and the woman\u2019s reservations about him) until they eventually have children\u2014at which point the \u201cstory\u201d grinds to a halt.<br>This story is similar to the kind of work you find on Tor.com (I suspect Reznikov is a metaphor for a certain type of emotionally shutdown man) and it has MFA\/writer\u2019s workshop stamped all over it. Apart from the fact there is little in the way of structure or an arc, I could have done without the omniscient author comments, e.g. \u201cThis is a story about a creature that was incapable of telling stories about itself.\u201d<br>* (Mediocre). 2,850 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Didn\u2019t Buy It by Naomi Kanakia (Asimov\u2019s SF, January\/February 2021) starts with an android called Reznikov being abused by his female owner until a friend of hers calls the police and she is arrested. After this Reznikov rips out his transponder and lives wild until he meets another woman and starts living with her. [&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":[105],"tags":[21,50,4,106,12],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naomi-kanakia","tag-21","tag-50","tag-asimovs-sf","tag-naomi-kanakia","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\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}