{"id":4501,"date":"2022-06-14T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2022-06-20T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:13:49","slug":"vagrants-by-lavie-tidhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Vagrants by Lavie Tidhar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Vagrants <\/em><\/strong>by Lavie Tidhar (<em>Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em> #14, March 2022) sees a man return to a space station he passed through twenty years ago, when he was on his way up from Earth and out into the solar system and what became his life (fighting in a war, etc.). He has various encounters with a robotnik beggar, a bar singer, and a robot hotel receptionist, during which various life observations are delivered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a world right here\u201d, Red said. She took a sip and studied him over the bottle. \u201cYou don\u2019t get it, do you?\u201d she said.<br>\u201cGet what?\u201d<br>\u201cYou think going out there fixes what\u2019s inside here,\u201d she said. She tapped him on the chest. It pushed him up so for a moment he was floating, just an inch or so above the seat. \u201cYeah,\u201d Red said. She finished her beer and tossed it back to the bar. It floated to the old bartender. \u201cI see guys like you every day of the week,\u201d Red said. \u201cYoung and ignorant when you come up the gravity well. Old and ignorant when you come back. You think, if only you went out there you\u2019d find whatever it is you\u2019re searching for. But you never did find it, did you?\u201d<br>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Nugget said. \u201cI lived a life.\u201d<br>\u201cNo,\u201d she told him. \u201cYou only ran away from one.\u201d&nbsp; p. 69<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an okay read, I suppose, but it\u2019s a fragment not a story.<br>* (Mediocre). 2,200 words. <a href=\"https:\/\/future-sf.com\/fiction\/vagrants\/\">Story link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vagrants by Lavie Tidhar (Future Science Fiction Digest #14, March 2022) sees a man return to a space station he passed through twenty years ago, when he was on his way up from Earth and out into the solar system and what became his life (fighting in a war, etc.). He has various encounters with [&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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[21,539,1070,108,1073,12],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lavie-tidhar","tag-21","tag-539","tag-future-science-fiction-digest","tag-lavie-tidhar","tag-no-direction-home","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\/4501","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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}