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dustydigger
Posted 2015-11-01 5:01 AM (#11653 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: UK		Thanks so much for the link,Devilinlaw,very interesting. I bet Leckie had a lot of fun frustrating the common gender - and genre - expectations of her readers. I fell into the trap immediately. Toren,chief of the guards,ship AI? Got to be male(hey,I read pre 1960 SF on a regular basis,thats where I formed my expectations lol),so the possible love interest would probably be female. Of course reading the book would give me a headache!
Seriously though I just found that the author spent so much time being evenhanded about gender that characterisation was a bit lacking. I wasnt totally convinced that a society could really be so evenhanded that they would ignore gender differences so entirely. Thats why I preferred Sword,we got more action and worldbuilding.
Got to admit I am not much into issue based fiction. Bring back the Big Dumb Objects and Bug Eyed Monsters . Oh dear, I am surely showing the biases of a grumpy old woman,arent I?

Edited by dustydigger 2015-11-01 5:07 AM

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