find it especially depressing since the author is female
I checked some dates, and it's really interesting to me that she wrote this one after finishing the Chanur series -- maybe she felt she'd had a surfeit of female characters/dealt enough with gender issues/didn't want to be branded as an "author for women"? Maybe she felt ready to take on the male brain, for a change/after working through all that? (I notice we don't get any POV from Khym Chanur till the 3rd or 4th book -- maybe it took her a while to get her nerve up for writing a male POV?)
like humans being "a biological contamination of the infinite, a local and temporary condition" - awesome writing/concept
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I checked some dates, and it's really interesting to me that she wrote this one after finishing the Chanur series -- maybe she felt she'd had a surfeit of female characters/dealt enough with gender issues/didn't want to be branded as an "author for women"? Maybe she felt ready to take on the male brain, for a change/after working through all that? (I notice we don't get any POV from Khym Chanur till the 3rd or 4th book -- maybe it took her a while to get her nerve up for writing a male POV?)
like humans being "a biological contamination of the infinite, a local and temporary condition" - awesome writing/concept
Oooh, I missed that line, but I love it!