![]() ![]() ![]() One thing keeps me from recommending this book wholeheartedly - the section where the Hector-Helen figure (the “characters” in this book shift identities and situations constantly) is a trans woman is…worrying, in some ways, with narrative misgendering, violent thoughts from other characters, and a few other problems - I wouldn’t say that this Is A Transmisogynist Book and I’m not entirely sure how to feel about this section (and after all I’m not a trans woman) but at the very least I’d imagine it could be tough on some people to read.Īpart from that this book is brilliant and thrilling, structurally fascinating, full of the kind of bizarre leaps and disjunctures that to me are so central to the sfnal experience but which are so absent from most contemporary published work sensawunda out of control politically astute without being propaganda and its purely sfnal imagination (the aliens, the city, the computer program…) is just miles and miles and miles beyond pretty much any of its contemporaries. ![]() Brissett dared to shake her characters's lives and situations at the turn of a page, to mix classical myths, history and symbolism with scifi tropes. Jennifer Marie Brissett, Elysium Or, The World After Elysium is an extremely bold novel because it takes guts to write something so far from mainstream stories and mainstream storytelling. ![]()
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