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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
If You Want to Use Your Brain, This One's A Good One!: 
It's really tough to branch out and write different kinds of literature - essays, mainstream novels, comedy, short stories, etc. - when everyone expects the author to stay in a certain, small, proscribed arena. In Forrest's case, she is known for writing taut lesbian characters in genre action or romances. This book is a departure from that. Though it is now a bit dated, the book explores a more intellectual and political side to the world. The characters are still taut, but they're not all lesbian, there... more info
Bitterly disappointed: 
I love everything that I have read of Katherine V. Forrest with the exception of this book. Rather than presenting rich and interesting characters, she has created stereotypes and this is a political polemic rather than a novel. There are other other types of writing such as an essay which would have done just as well as this piece. But please don't let this stop you from reading her Kate Delafield mysteries or The Emergence of Green. I was very disappointed because this is not what I would have expected... more info
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