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"Here's something from p.72. ""coffee, sir?" An aide approached David with a tray of mugs. He gave the tiny-breasted girl the barest stake of his head." So, when did it become acceptable merely to describe a woman by the size of her breasts? She plays no other part. We could have learnt about the colour of her hair for eg. is it how the character views her? unlikely. To my mind, it is just casual sexism." — Jun 08, 2013 02:40pm
"Here's something from p.72. ""coffee, sir?" An aide approached David with a tray of mugs. He gave the tiny-breasted girl the barest stake of his head." So, when did it become acceptable merely to describe a woman by the size of her breasts? She plays no other part. We could have learnt about the colour of her hair for eg. is it how the character views her? unlikely. To my mind, it is just casual sexism." — Jun 08, 2013 02:40pm
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is on page 197 of 464 of Deep Fathom: Here's something from p.72. ""coffee, sir?" An aide approached David with a tray of mugs. He gave the tiny-breasted girl the barest stake of his head." So, when did it become acceptable merely to describe a woman by the size of her breasts? She plays no other part. We could have learnt about the colour of her hair for eg. is it how the character views her? unlikely. To my mind, it is just casual sexism.
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is on page 165 of 464 of Deep Fathom: An oldie from Mr Rollins (2001), but it still has all of the necessary ingredients - strong characters and action, and a plot based on history with a twist.
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Another excellent installment in what's probably my favorite ongoing SF series. Banks plays with themes of life, death, illusion and virtual reality, in a number of permutations and twists that's dizzying right from the beginning. There's more she...
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Banks is one of my all time favourites, but had put out some disappointments recently - Algebraist and Matter were just plain no good. Some of the straight fiction stuff had also been really below par, but he's put out Transitions and now this and...
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| Finished this last night. I had forgotten how good, that's good mind, properly done space opera can be. And this book gives good space opera. Trouble is, that doesn't happen until fairly near the end. Up to that point, we have interesting different v...more | |
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