enne📚 reviewed A Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi
A Dream of Electric Mothers
4 stars
This novelette centers itself on a far future people who have uploaded the minds of their ancestors into a single "electric mother" consciousness that can be consulted by politicians. The narrator is a newly appointed minister of defense who is seeking both advice from the electric mother about a potential war but also wanting to use this device to reconnect with her own dead mother specifically. This was a fun riff on a typical consciousness uploading story and it packed a lot of worldbuilding, personal story, and plot into a very short word count.