Reviews of my recent stories include:
Tangent Online's Victoria Silverwolf reviewing Aurealis #157, February 2023
Set in India in the near future, “Autonomous” by Lyle Hopwood features a young man employed by a call center. He works his way up from collecting overdue bills to taking remote control of automated cars when their artificial intelligences cannot deal with unusual situations. Along the way, he becomes bitter and cynical. [...]
It powerfully demonstrates how the multinational nature of [call center] work causes [workers] to lose their native culture. The speculative technology in the story is highly plausible, and also serves as an effective metaphor for how the protagonist feels he is losing control of his life.
SF Revu reviewing Interzone 290-291-Double Issue, 26 June 2021
"Pace Car" by Lyle HopwoodWhen Alisa was three years old, Gates came down from the sky all over Earth. You could step through one and be transported to another part of Earth. But they would only transport organic matter. They transmitted fields for miles around that disintegrated inorganic matter. The resultant chaos had reduced the population of the Earth by five and a half billion people. [...]
Finely written bittersweet tale.
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