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Choices. Identity. Consequences. Love.
All of this, in a story that's ostensibly about a person who's a starship. And also her crew. But mostly about one member of her crew. Who is also the ship. And who she becomes when she is cut off from her ship-self. And I say her...because her culture, the Radchaai, don't actually have gender distinctions in language, and everyone is referred to with gender-neutral pronouns. Which Ann Leckie has decided to use English feminine pronouns to represent. Which i ...more
All of this, in a story that's ostensibly about a person who's a starship. And also her crew. But mostly about one member of her crew. Who is also the ship. And who she becomes when she is cut off from her ship-self. And I say her...because her culture, the Radchaai, don't actually have gender distinctions in language, and everyone is referred to with gender-neutral pronouns. Which Ann Leckie has decided to use English feminine pronouns to represent. Which i ...more
I loved loved loved this book! The beginning was a bit confusing with all the gender pronouns, but reading it twice really cleared things up for me.
Strangest thing I found, was that despite all the female pronouns, I still sometimes defaulted to male. Ugh, years of reading male dominated SciFi have programmed me. But then I think that was part of the point of the book, to highlight this trend for male as default.
Bravo Ann Leckie! This book was long overdue!
Strangest thing I found, was that despite all the female pronouns, I still sometimes defaulted to male. Ugh, years of reading male dominated SciFi have programmed me. But then I think that was part of the point of the book, to highlight this trend for male as default.
Bravo Ann Leckie! This book was long overdue!
Really enjoyable sci-fi, enough of a mystery to what is going on to keep a person guessing and really interesting characters. The he/she pronoun use was a little confusing at first, and I took a few chapters to get use to it.
There had to be a reason this book won all the awards this year...
It is *that* good!
I recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi, and even those who are not so sure!
And amazing, original, novel!
It is *that* good!
I recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi, and even those who are not so sure!
And amazing, original, novel!
Feb 14, 2015
Joanne G.
marked it as not-for-me
The pronoun she is used in a confusing manner.
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