James Alan Gardner's Commitment Hour

[phoenixfalls]

I just finished it. I loved it, but. . . I'm going to spoil the shit out of it, which is why I'm posting here rather than on my book review blog. I can't quite decide if the book is totally fine being spoiled or if a huge part of the joy is figuring things out; I think I lean towards thinking it's fine to be spoiled, but I can't help the niggling

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[comrade_cat]

I love James Alan Gardner's books, but I last read Commitment Hour a long time ago, probably in college, and I totally didn't pick up on the disappearance of same sex relations. Thank you! Situations mixing gender and sexual orientation are a weird sort of thought, especially for us who have to make same sex relations a cause because of the amount of prejudice. Hm, does that sentence make sense? There was something I wanted to say... I'm not awake yet.

I hope you do go on to read more Gardner though, he's an awful lot of fun.

[phoenixfalls]

I'm definitely going to read more of Gardner's books; I really liked the tone and the characterization.

There is a reference to same-sex relations. . . but it occurs outside the main town, so it doesn't really provide any info about how this particular staged utopia deals/dealt with the issue, and that just felt so weird.

Still mulling the book over. . .