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ext_939 ([identity profile] spiralsheep.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] capri0mni 2009-03-27 12:05 pm (UTC)

Most of the issues I have with TSWS (note: haven't read the sequels) were issues with McCaffrey's writing in general rather than specific to TSWS, which was a relief in a way. The premise was brilliant. In our time we use technology to try to standardise disabled people towards a four-limbed able-bodied model but in TSWS's future disabled people were given/allowed tech to enhance their aptitudes according to their preferences and four-limbedness was seen as a restrictive form of ability compared to the possibilities. Oh, and while their is some bolted-to-wheelchairness in TSWS it's also the case that McCaffrey uses her imagination and skiffy-tech to explore issues such as the physical location of the seat of consciousness, i.e. the human element in human beings, and her very-able-disabled heroine's sexuality (which might annoy you but [1] all McCaffrey-sex is annoying and [2] at least TSWS has a sexuality). It's not a high-brow book and you'd probably read through it quickly (provided it didn't make your head explode, obviously).

re 2. Yeah, Four in Bessie was as close as we got last time we talked, oh, and Sarah Jane with a twisted ankle (and a cardboard arrow texted "twisted ankle" to lampshade the joke).

re 3. Ooo steampunk wheelchair FTW! Or HG Wells' Time Machine, yes.

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