“It Was Just An Accident” was powerful, tightly focused on its central quandary but still humanly messy.
Maybe “Death and the Maiden” was first to ask “What if you meet your torturer?” — but sadly the world has more than enough barbarity to justify another version of this story.
Greg Egan
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