• Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino. Re-reading. Musical feminist fantasy, sweet.
• After Long silence or The Enigma Score by Sheri Tepper. Re-reading. Alien first contact… it takes a while because the humans get shunned for years on account of not being truthful. I am very fond of this bit: “…sang of greed and pride, things that the viggies understood to ( Read more... )

This has been on some sort of internal list of books I should get around to reading. I’m glad I did, it’s amazingly quotable. The style is a little challenging but I can forgive a lot given it was written before I was born. The story follows four women from parallel worlds, each with their own ideas of what it means to be female.

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