Right now I'm slogging through colonial literature, with a focus right now of religious stuff...
That reminds me, I gotta find The Wordy Shipmates. I didn't finish it! Where is it?! Dang!
The Left Hand of Darkness is good, but I like the person who pointed out to the author (she quoted this in an intro to another book) that she intended to write a book about a planet of androgynes, and wrote a book entirely of men. The Birthday of the World has a short story of a person becoming of age in that society, going into kemmer the first time and visiting the kemmerhouse. It's really good, the characters are actually androgynous, and...it's kinda hot.
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:44 am (UTC)That reminds me, I gotta find The Wordy Shipmates. I didn't finish it! Where is it?! Dang!
The Left Hand of Darkness is good, but I like the person who pointed out to the author (she quoted this in an intro to another book) that she intended to write a book about a planet of androgynes, and wrote a book entirely of men. The Birthday of the World has a short story of a person becoming of age in that society, going into kemmer the first time and visiting the kemmerhouse. It's really good, the characters are actually androgynous, and...it's kinda hot.