The Need for Air by Lettie Prell
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (27 pages)
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeA mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn’t enough for life.
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Lake, the main character, had a complicated relationship with her young son. She cared about him quite a bit, but she also had unreasonably rigid expectations of what sort of child he should be. Every time he failed to live up to her expectations, I wondered how she was going to react to that and if she’d learn how to accept him for who he was instead of pushing him to be someone he wasn’t. There were times when it was difficult to see her project her desires onto him so relentlessly, but I was always intrigued by the justifications she came up with for her behavior.
It would have been nice to have a few more details about the setting. For example, it was never quite clear to me how the virtual world that Lake wanted to spend all of her time in made enough money to stay viable. Characters who lived in the real world had to work for a living, so I could only assume there’d need to be some sort of virtual economy as well to pay for things like electricity and upkeep of the highly sophisticated computer programs that people lived in.
One of the other things that Ms. Prell excelled at in this tale was describing how mental illness can affect every facet of someone’s life. Lake’s diagnosis was never entirely clear, but she was obviously struggling with the conflict between the parent she wished she could be and the parent she actually was to her kid. These struggles extended to other parts of this character’s life as well, from her occupation to her relationship with the father of her son.
I’d recommend The Need for Air to anyone who has ever had mixed emotions about someone or something that they loved.
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