{"id":5042,"date":"2022-07-25T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2022-08-19T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T09:48:18","slug":"the-last-science-fiction-story-by-adam-troy-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"The Last Science Fiction Story by Adam Troy-Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Last Science Fiction Story<\/em><\/strong> by Adam Troy-Castro (<em>Analog<\/em>, January-February 2021) is a piece of flash fiction that initially sets up the connection between stories and the outward urge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>At one point, someone wondered, what\u2019s beyond the next hill?<br>No one had been there. No one had worked up the nerve to go there.<br>So, someone asked, \u201cWhat if we went?\u201d<br>A story got told.<br>And as time went on, and people went beyond that hill, it happened again.<br>\u201cWhat is it like on the other side of the river?\u201d<br>A story got told.<br>\u201cWhat is it like past those distant mountains?\u201d<br>A story got told.&nbsp; p. 42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After a bit more of this (and some description of the human race spreading through the Galaxy) I would have expected the last line to echo the connection above, but instead the piece finishes with the question (spoiler):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cYes, yes, that\u2019s all well and good . . . but what\u2019s out there?\u201d  p. 43<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This appears to be a non-sequitur as that question illustrates human curiosity, which may be related but isn\u2019t the same thing.<br>* (Mediocre). 650 words. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/assets\/6\/6\/The_Last-SciFi-Story_Castro.pdf\">Story link<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Science Fiction Story by Adam Troy-Castro (Analog, January-February 2021) is a piece of flash fiction that initially sets up the connection between stories and the outward urge: At one point, someone wondered, what\u2019s beyond the next hill?No one had been there. No one had worked up the nerve to go there.So, someone asked, [&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":[347],"tags":[21,50,348,33,1192,1022,12],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-troy-castro","tag-21","tag-50","tag-adam-troy-castro","tag-analog","tag-outward-urge","tag-short-short","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\/5042","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=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}