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The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
by Gene Wolfe
Three interconnected novellas about identity and the rumors of aboriginal life on a pair of twin planets colonized by humans. I loved the first and last ones, though really disliked the middle one, hence only three stars. (After the last novella, the middle one makes a lot more sense and is more interesting in context, but that didn't help when I was struggling through it.)
The worldbuilding was good and interesting (the way the society is revealed to the reader is particularly good in the first novella), and it was fun seeing the twists I'd suspected gradually come clear, as well as the connections between the three stories.
This was written in 1972 and generally holds up well, though bits seem dated: having the planets originally colonized by the French seems kind of hilarious now. If this were written today surely it would be by China or India or somebody besides France. And I sure wish the women had been more than just sex objects. Glad I read it, though, since it was definitely not what I'd expected.
The worldbuilding was good and interesting (the way the society is revealed to the reader is particularly good in the first novella), and it was fun seeing the twists I'd suspected gradually come clear, as well as the connections between the three stories.
This was written in 1972 and generally holds up well, though bits seem dated: having the planets originally colonized by the French seems kind of hilarious now. If this were written today surely it would be by China or India or somebody besides France. And I sure wish the women had been more than just sex objects. Glad I read it, though, since it was definitely not what I'd expected.