A review by futuregazer
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

4.0

Well, that was....odd. Good, but odd. I'll have to think about that. Glad to see a Utopic society examined for flaws in a way where the judgement is not: flaws are totally justifiable (Culture series - ridiculous), flaws completely outweigh the good of the utopia (basically all the fiction we label as dystopia), or flaws are not there (a few very bad books written by fanatical folks). Admitting they are there, and leaving the question about how to deal with them open after taking a good hard look at some of the damage they cause; that is far more realistic, even if less intrinsically satisfying.