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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-10-03 12:25 PM (#16326 - in reply to #14880)
Subject: Re: 2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I am way behind on my reading challenges due to a hard year of writing like a crazy woman, so I've pared back to the ones I started, and if they happen to overlap, great! So I'll be trying to finish 9 books for the LGBTQ challenge. Which gives me more to read next year! Just finished The Book of Skulls, which might seem an unusual choice but one of the four main characters is gay/bisexual with a preference for men, and this is important to plot and character. It's a little jarring to read about attitudes in the early 70s. Ned, the character in question, *thinks* of himself as a pervert and a degenerate, which is, of course, the message that the world was giving us at the time. On the other hand, Silverberg displays an understanding that is ahead of his time, in that being gay is not a choice, nor a defect of character, and that it has nothing to do with your upbringing. Worth checking out.

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