![]() ![]() Here's someone else rather disenchanted with the "philosophy". ![]() Unfortunately this is a well-worn topic and she has nothing new to say and the culture she designs 2 is so terrible that any chance of subtlety is lost. The main one, laid on with a trowel, is how bad patriarchal cultures that denigrate women are. Speaking of Themes, I should mention them. But Tepper is Terribly Serious about her Themes, so can't have the same licence. With him, because it is all for fun, you accept the funny cultures and don't worry about how they could have evolved or survived. ![]() ![]() Some of it reminds me of the weaker Jack Vance's - an isolated solar system with different wacky cultures - but without his poetry of language. Though to be fair, I did enjoy reading it. However, it is a much weaker and worse book than Grass cruder and less textured. RtS is only very weakly a follow-on, so much so that if you didn't know you wouldn't realise it is "in the same universe". Grass is excellent (I'm currently in the middle of re-reading it and will review it when finished ) as was The Gate to Women's Country (which I've recently re-read and ought to review). Tepper is a follow-on to Grass, except it isn't really. Raising the Stones aka Arbai #2 by Sheri S. ![]()
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