{"id":6130,"date":"2023-01-09T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2023-01-09T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:50:27","slug":"ocean-by-steven-utley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=6130","title":{"rendered":"<strong><em>Ocean <\/em><\/strong>by Steven Utley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Ocean <\/em><\/strong>by Steven Utley (<em>Fantastic<\/em>, August 1976) opens with the female narrator, who has \u201cflippers and gills now\u201d, poisoned by the spines of a sea urchin\u2014but she escapes its effects by surfacing and becoming a flying creature.<br>The next section describes an ongoing struggle she is having with a man who is either (a) interfering with her (possibly prosthetic) body, or (b) operating her controls (she may be a spaceship), or (c) she is a personality living in a ship\u2019s computer. Later we learn (spoiler) that it is the latter, and that she is on a generation ship where everyone died apart from her. When she got old she uploaded into the ship\u2019s circuits\/memory, and at that point sensed a malevolent entity.<br>The story ends with some sort of reckoning.<br>Trying to work out what was going on while reading this story was like wading through mud.<br>&#8211; (Awful). 2,700 words. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Fantastic_v25n04_1976-08\/page\/n105\/mode\/2up\">Story link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean by Steven Utley (Fantastic, August 1976) opens with the female narrator, who has \u201cflippers and gills now\u201d, poisoned by the spines of a sea urchin\u2014but she escapes its effects by surfacing and becoming a flying creature.The next section describes an ongoing struggle she is having with a man who is either (a) interfering 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":[38],"tags":[79,527,206,1124,859,12,39],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steven-utley","tag-527","tag-fantastic","tag-generation-spaceship","tag-memory-storage","tag-short-story","tag-steven-utley"],"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\/6130","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=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}