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Oh wow is this book bad. Not just, like, bad in writing - it has long passages of characters wracking their emotions with wrack and little detail on anything else - no, it's a PRO-SLAVERY book. It argues that slavery is good because it saves taxpayer money? Somehow? And, like, freeing the slaves will make them all miserable because they won't know how to live.
Seriously. This one slave dies b/c she doesn't recognize a poisonous plant on her own planet. Supposedly the alien slaves just never learned anything outside of slave school? And there were no free aliens to teach her? And, wait... doesn't that mean her death is a direct result of humans taking away her cultural knowledge?
The aliens have one eye and speak simplistically and resemble alligators - and the author screws up at least once and says 'she turned her eyes' -- and have some taboo about not having sex with someone from the same birth-tree? It's not clear why but there's an incest thing I guess and the most in-depth passage in the book describes how the aliens mate by smearing their liquids together on a tree.
It's awful! I was hoping for sensationalism. The cover is fabulously shlocky 1960s science fiction with lizards and explosions. Alas! Do not read!
Seriously. This one slave dies b/c she doesn't recognize a poisonous plant on her own planet. Supposedly the alien slaves just never learned anything outside of slave school? And there were no free aliens to teach her? And, wait... doesn't that mean her death is a direct result of humans taking away her cultural knowledge?
The aliens have one eye and speak simplistically and resemble alligators - and the author screws up at least once and says 'she turned her eyes' -- and have some taboo about not having sex with someone from the same birth-tree? It's not clear why but there's an incest thing I guess and the most in-depth passage in the book describes how the aliens mate by smearing their liquids together on a tree.
It's awful! I was hoping for sensationalism. The cover is fabulously shlocky 1960s science fiction with lizards and explosions. Alas! Do not read!
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