I have been given free review access to The Daily Tomorrow, a new magazine of sorts for science fiction short stories. It works as a daily newsletter hosted on Substack, where subscribers get a short portion of a story every day and in a week the story is complete. This is an interesting approach to delivering short stories to readers through e-mail, so at first I tried that approach by reading the daily e-mail. However, that didn’t work for me at all. It was difficult only reading a handful of paragraphs with 24 hours in between, and maybe that particular wasn’t for my thing either. I could see the format working for flash fiction though. The good thing is that you don’t have to read it like that, as complete stories are available on the website, so I loaded this story instead onto my Kindle.

This story by Marie Vibbert taps into nostalgic media fandom, with a story about a young researcher in the future working on recovering historical artifacts who faces challenges when her project is in a danger of being closed due to budget cuts. In this case it is about old Dr. Who episodes, but the specifics aren’t that important for the story as such. It is a positive outlook on respect for our cultural history and a celebration of fan communities.

Read in The Daily Tomorrow, Issue 4
Rating: 2+