The Book of the River

Rating:
Summary: Give this tale a miss.
Review: Reverse stereotypes are still stereotypes. This is a male author attempting to write a woman protagonist, and not doing it convincingly. For instance, what society lead by women would have "heroines" - a diminutive form? Society's leaders don't use diminutives. The author also expresses negative stereotyping of gays. This is a person of limited vision expressing his limits.

Let this story depart into a well deserved obscurity.

Rating:
Summary: A good book to revisit
Review: The possibility that something else exists, that a male can write from a female point of view, that things are different,that the world is divided, never occurded to me before this book. I have read and reread it since I bought it 13 years ago. I love it. Take the time to alter reality for a while.

To think that on an alien world, an alien would write a story about a big worm in a river, in correct english from our point of view (and what would she call herslf anyway - a hero?) is nonsense.