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A review by heliopteryx
The Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey
3.0
This book has some good sci fi ideas, namely the way being in extended cryosleep would take you "out of time" and what you'd need to do to get back up to speed with society.
But the metaphor for racial discrimination was very inelegant. This is going to sound uncharitable, but I suspect the authors don't have a real understanding of what it is like to be on the receiving end of prejudice, only the giving end, so they can write the uncertainty, shame, and guilt of being on the giving end, but the way those on the receiving end behave seems wildly unrealistic to me.
But the metaphor for racial discrimination was very inelegant. This is going to sound uncharitable, but I suspect the authors don't have a real understanding of what it is like to be on the receiving end of prejudice, only the giving end, so they can write the uncertainty, shame, and guilt of being on the giving end, but the way those on the receiving end behave seems wildly unrealistic to me.