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Flesh And Gold
A mature alien woman judge sees an amphibious human woman, obviously a slave, displayed in a tank in front of a sex palace. And so an interstellar plot of murderous proportions involving many races and planets, galactic corporations, exploitive sex and horrible slavery is revealed.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 15th 1999
by Tor Books
(first published January 1st 1998)
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One of the most beautiful space opera stories I've ever read. Filled with gorgeous descriptions and compellingly odd characters, this is Gotlieb's late masterpiece, the work of an unequaled eye for the aesthetic. Flesh and Gold was truly a revelation for me and certainly informed the writing of my first novel. it deserves to be read by all discerning fans of literary science fiction.
Disappointing.
When reading a book full of dozens of alien species I ask, "what do these alien types add to the book?" In this case, I really can't tell.
The plot: a telepathic judge investigates a murder and human trafficking. But really it's more like, "a bunch of alien types bump around while a morose and naive judge (with 25 years experience) is shocked--shocked!--that corruption takes place. And then she writes haikus."
I've been slowly working my way through the Tiptree awards shortlist, bu...more
When reading a book full of dozens of alien species I ask, "what do these alien types add to the book?" In this case, I really can't tell.
The plot: a telepathic judge investigates a murder and human trafficking. But really it's more like, "a bunch of alien types bump around while a morose and naive judge (with 25 years experience) is shocked--shocked!--that corruption takes place. And then she writes haikus."
I've been slowly working my way through the Tiptree awards shortlist, bu...more
This was a re-read.
I recommended it to my book club, and then couldn't make the meeting due to a family commitment, so I felt a little apprehensive about that. What if I didn't like it as much on a second reading? How would I justify myself?
Well, I should have trusted myself. I LOVE this book. If anyone else doesn't - well, then they don't, and we will have to disagree.
All I have to say is, I don't think Ursula LeGuin has ever steered me wrong. (She blurbed this book, and while many authors' pra...more
I recommended it to my book club, and then couldn't make the meeting due to a family commitment, so I felt a little apprehensive about that. What if I didn't like it as much on a second reading? How would I justify myself?
Well, I should have trusted myself. I LOVE this book. If anyone else doesn't - well, then they don't, and we will have to disagree.
All I have to say is, I don't think Ursula LeGuin has ever steered me wrong. (She blurbed this book, and while many authors' pra...more
This first of a trilogy is good gutsy SF. Several plot strands across multiple worlds and involving both human and alien protagonists weave a narrative of a future corporation with a slave breeding process, using cloning technology to create a slave race, and trying to create fertile clones who can therefore self-reproduce. The Galactic Federation, Gotlieb's far future space "Empire," acts in its usually only barely effective way to try to stop this. Great characterization, some genuinely unsett...more
I wondered if, in such a diverse universe with so many different planets of origins, the court system would really resemble our so much; wouldn't there be other conceptions? But I liked the judge character, especially; I also liked that all sentient beings were called "humans", whatever planet they came from (solthree, for example). Raises some interesting issues about sexuality, power, and etc.
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I abandoned it. I am loving her writing style, but the story is simply not gripping me.
I really wanted to like this book because Gotlieb is a Canadian author and I really try to get as much CanCon as possible in my life. But, this just ain't cutting it.
In other news, I'm going to start Stranger in a Strange Land tonight, hopefully that one will go better!
I really wanted to like this book because Gotlieb is a Canadian author and I really try to get as much CanCon as possible in my life. But, this just ain't cutting it.
In other news, I'm going to start Stranger in a Strange Land tonight, hopefully that one will go better!
I never thought of the possibility of aliens as being sex-obsessed. I always thought aliens would be vicious genius mass murderers at worst, or arrogantly snobbish like Q at their best ... but never like this. Not sure what to think of it all.
A sort of film noir social sf novel that leaves just one too many questions for me. The atmosphere is well done but you don't get the impression of why this particular future is the way it is. A fun read, though.
really wanted to like this one but the ratio dated/writing style is too unfavorable for me
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Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom, BA, MA was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.
She was married to Calvin Gotlieb, a computer scienc...more
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The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.
She was married to Calvin Gotlieb, a computer scienc...more
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