The President's Brain is Missing: A Tor.Com Original
By John Scalzi
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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John Scalzi
John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His debut, Old Man's War, won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Lock In, and also Redshirts, which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
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Reviews for The President's Brain is Missing
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an ebook-only short, barely a novella. It's also vintage Scalzi, funny and irreverent and insightful.
A senior staffer for an unnamed president gradually comes to the shocking realization that the president's brain is missing. He's walking, he's talking, he's functioning normally--but his brain is missing! (Yes, insert jokes here; Scalzi is careful to ensure you can't peg this president as being either Bush or Obama. He's not doing contemporary political commentary, here.)
The senior staffer starts digging for an answer to what's happened, and solution to the problem. But is it a problem? Who is responsible? Does this need to be fixed? And what's going to happen to the nosy staffer?
It's wickedly funny, and well worth the time you'll spend reading it. Recommended.
I bought this story. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a short story from John Scalzi. Still an entertaining read but not my favourite.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Now that is how you do satire. A perfect story with a wicked little bite.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short story about how one day the President’s brain has gone missing, and he is still walking, talking and doesn’t seem to be effected by it. The cabinet starts to scramble to figure out just what happened. By the end of the story, you see what happened to the president.