I’ve had this short story saved as a PDF on my phone for years, probably ever since I finished Bioshock Infinite (which I absolutely loved.) So it was nice to finally check it out. Although I’m not sure you can even really call it a short story, it’s more of a journal alongside interview transcripts.

Either way I did find the premise of it interesting. A devoted and nationalistic physiologist, Dr. Francis Pinchot, interviewing Daisy Fitzroy (One of the major antagonists in the video game) a famous anarchist and brutal leader of the Vox Populi, before she is due to be lobotomised.

I enjoyed her overall demeanour plus the Doctors surprise when seeing her high results from an intelligence test. Then how he begins to appreciate her mind and fears of it being destroyed, ultimately going as far as to aid her escape before a shock twist at the end.

I quite liked the little writing that there was in this but I just wish there was more of everything. I wish Columbia had its own full scale novel just like Rapture did. Because I would love to explore the city in more depth, it’s creation, it’s leader, the factions within it and the politics surrounding it. This unfortunately barely scratches the surface.