If death should take me now

[sakuranochi]

Comments

[flidgetjerome]

I never got beyond Perdido Street Station, myself. The illusion of the city broke for me when an ostensibly open, gender-equal and above all decadent and morally-bankrupt society was still given a Red Light district totally focused towards heterosexual males.

[sakuranochi]

I think it is just because its about David's visiting there and subsequent blackmailing. There's so much gay sex in Iron Council.

[flidgetjerome]

This may be because he got called out on it. I was lucky enough to hear him speak at Orbital when I went to see Gaimen - I don't like his writing but he's intelligent and a lot of fun to listen to and one of things he mentioned was that when he wrote PPS he thought he was being very liberal and enlightened and then after it got published he got called out on so. much. stuff.. None that he had intended but quite a lot of which he later realised did look pretty bad when approached from different view-points.

[sakuranochi]

YEah, thats one of the things about writing I guess, you can't think of every single thing and you are bound to forget stuff. I mean, I don't think anyone who knew anything about him would think he wasn't pro-gay, it is not a sinister thing. You just have to take it at face value, I mean, on the other hand, PSS probably has the best commentary on the social language of rape that I've ever seen in a popular fiction book.