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Read in July, 2008
This book was right up my alley: England, female-led insurgencies, dystopia, choice, etc., but sadly it fell flat. The story and its characters were simply too . . . simple. The author needed more than 200 pages to develop the story, which involves a woman escaping a British town that is controlled by an authoritarian government after the country's (unexplained) collapse. She finds refuge in a commune run by a group of women and their charismatic, Meinhof-esque leader. There she endures hazing b...more
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Sep 19, 2008
Wealhtheow
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tiptree award winner
This won the 2007 Tiptree over Flora Segunda and Water Logic, so it had better be pretty awesome. Otherwise, I shall feel quite put out.
I haven't read this yet, but apparently environmental catastrophe hits and England is reduced to totalitarian camps. A much-mentioned feature of these camps is mandatory contraception for the women; a lottery is used to decide which few are allowed to bear children. Oh noes! Except, hang on--*bearing children is not an inaliable human right*, e...more
I haven't read this yet, but apparently environmental catastrophe hits and England is reduced to totalitarian camps. A much-mentioned feature of these camps is mandatory contraception for the women; a lottery is used to decide which few are allowed to bear children. Oh noes! Except, hang on--*bearing children is not an inaliable human right*, e...more
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Read in September, 2008
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Someone on MDCrecommends it for: fans of utopia/dystopia, post-apocalypse
If I had to choose one word to describe this book it would be "aching." It was a quiet, dark book, terrifying in its realistic portrayal of a dystopian society. The narrator, known only as Sister, leaves her tightly controlled village to strike out to find Carhullan, a woman-run farm where she hopes things are different. What she finds isn't quite a utopia, but it's closer than her old life. The last quarter of the book or so takes a turn for the even darker, with questions about t...more
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Read in May, 2008
I enjoyed this book and found it well-written. The characters are alternately sympathetic and detestable. It is a fine addition to the lexicon of feminist dystopias.
If you're just wanting a taste of this kind of dystopia, I would point you to Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents". If you really want to sink your teeth in the subject, you should probably read this one at some point, because it does provide some unique food for tho...more
If you're just wanting a taste of this kind of dystopia, I would point you to Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents". If you really want to sink your teeth in the subject, you should probably read this one at some point, because it does provide some unique food for tho...more
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Read in August, 2009
