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| Interesting Morality Play |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 9 August 2021 |
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| Rating: |   8 |
"Memories of a Tyrant" concerns this question: How should we act about political atrocities when they have become only memories and historical records? The story goes at this question in a sideways fashion, being part whodunit and part spy thriller. The story is that Doctor 6 and Peri have been summoned to a space facility for research into how to recover and restore true memories. This facility is now down to a skeleton staff and on lockdown because the researchers are now working on only one subject, an old man who may or may not be a former political tyrant who destroyed whole planets for reasons unknown. Various factions and interests outside the facility are keen to know for certain who he his, not to get to the "truth," but to use the information for their own political and/or personal benefit. It's an interesting premise. Peri in this story is especially well written - loyal, honest, determined, and cleverer than she thinks she is. A couple of things keep this story from being really outstanding. One is the necessity of keeping it to a small cast. This limits the scale on which events can occur and creates some improbable events. Another is that the whodunit plot sidetracks the main story at several points. Still, this is a generally satisfying story.
