Challenge 962

A Post Hoc Is a Proper Hoc

In Nemo West’s Celomander:
1. What might account for Triss’s venturing alone and unarmed at night into a jungle infested with large carnivores?
2. Triss suffers a serious injury but dismisses it as inconsequential while insisting upon continuing Sam’s search for the Spero. What does the incident portend for the rest of the narrative? Are the three explorers immune to anything more than inconvenience unless an attack is immediately fatal?
In Kjetil Jansen’s A Category Five Cemetery:
1. In view of the “asimos’” armor, would an AK-47 be a modern weapon?
2. In what way would the “asimos” conflict with Isaac Asimov’s concept of a robot?
3. What ring or rings does the narrator find in the grave?
In Larry L. Richardson’s Felicity 1.0:
1. Is the android at the center of the story, or is the story really about Max, Margo and SueAnn? If the latter, what is their problem and how is it resolved? Or is it?
2. What might a breakthrough in android construction do besides express a desire to go shopping? Why might achieving artificial banality actually be the point?
In Julie Brandon’s But What Results?: How might the poem be read as a satire of superstition?