Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (Minister Faust) [#5]

[chomiji]

Hamza Senesert was once a contender, a creative grad student with a talent for writing. Now he washes dishes in a trendy "fun" restaurant. His best friend Yehat Gerbles is in a similar state of career petrification: he works as a clerk in a video store, even though he's a (mostly) self-taught engineering wizard. Together, they share a house in a

Comments

[oddmonster]

Thank you for talking about the lack of women in this book. It was a hard thing not to bang on about when I reviewed it, but, I kind of felt like the characters could say they loved women, revered women, worshipped women all they liked, but it then made no sense to me that there were so few women in the book.

I did however, love the placeporn that was Edmonton.

[chomiji]

I have to say that while I was reading the story, it didn't bother me much. I have enjoyed this type of near-all-male-cast story about buddies since I was a kid during the late 1960s, reading Rosemary Sutcliff's YA historical novels. But it's something to which I've become more sensitive as I've become older. I knew it would be an issue for some on my f-list, and by extension, for people on this community, so I felt a warning was due.

Yeah, Edmonton as presented was really interesting! And one of the pro reviews I read afterward mentioned how Hamza and Ye were so connected, people-wise: even though their families were a mess, they thought about them and missed them. And then there was the Coyote Camp. The two friends are the opposite in many ways of the maverick, go-it-alone heroes so beloved of many SF writers.

[oddmonster]

And one of the pro reviews I read afterward mentioned how Hamza and Ye were so connected, people-wise: even though their families were a mess, they thought about them and missed them.

Wow, I totally hadn't thought about that. That is a new perspective for me on a book I haven't read in too long. Excellent.