Sue Lange

Plot:
Tritcheon Hash lives on the planet of Coney Island. Coney Island is home to only women: after all the male violence on Earth, the women just up and left. Now men and women only see each other once a year at the sperm against male babies exchange. Things have been going smoothly for a while and talk of reunification have been stirring. But since Earth is covered in a cloud of pollution, making satellite observation impossible, Coney Island needs to send a spy there in person to see if the men are ready again. The chosen spy is Tritcheon who leaves her wife and kids behind to take on the mission - which reconnects her to her own past.

I think that Tritcheon Hash thinks that it's making some kind of feminist point but that point completely backfires. And narratively it didn't blow me away, either.

Read more on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2018/09/21/tritcheon-hash-sue-lange/… (meer)

Plot:
Marla Gershe is a manager on the Textile Planet. The planet is devoted in its entirety to the production of fabrics of all kinds - and it demands a lot of devotion from its workers. Marla's expected output quota has been nothing but raised. When her team is halfed in size without it affecting the quota at all, Marla has had it. She organizes a strike, gets shot for her efforts and her entire life is upended - so Marla has to leave the Textile Planet behind.

The Textile Planet is a weird book. It sets out a good and pretty fast pace, but as it hurries along, it left me mostly confused and disoriented. Ultimately that turned to annoyance on my side.

Read more (with spoilers) on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2018/09/01/the-textile-planet-sue-lange/… (meer)