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WOW! I can't believe I've never read this story. I loved Kindred...and this is an entirely different kind of wonderfulness. Oh, my, I loved it. The connections between a human woman and her non-human captors or saviors, depending on how you view it, form the plot of this novel. I read several reviews that felt the strangeness of the "creatures" was just too weird for them. It is weird and yet Butler's writing and the detailed explanation for the encounter ,and the reason for the encounter, left
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Having read Kindred and Bloodchild and Other Stories, I can see that Butler has some favorite themes - slavery, captivity, collaboration, survival, identity, rape, sex, procreation, civilization. She plays with these concepts as usual, leaving the reader little refuge in black and white morality.
I only wish the characters in this story felt a little more three-dimensional. The captors have an inscrutability that's quite logical within the story, but even they felt more fleshed-out than many of ...more
I only wish the characters in this story felt a little more three-dimensional. The captors have an inscrutability that's quite logical within the story, but even they felt more fleshed-out than many of ...more
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