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A review by randalm
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
3.0
I felt this book had two strikes against it, its title and its first chapter. I decided to overlook the former. The latter almost made me put the book down, with its unoriginal vision of a world controlled by a few corporations. It’s not that I disagree with this possibility. I was simply in the mood for something fresher.
However, once past that chapter, the nature of the tale changed and I was hooked. Shira loses custody of her child and leaves her “multi” (multicorporation) to return to the freetown of Tikva, a Jewish, feminist, cooperative enclave. A friend of her family is illegally creating a cyborg to defend the town from the multis. Shira gets involved professionally and then personally with Yod, the cyborg. Woven in book is the tale of the golem of Prague, created long ago to defend the Jewish ghetto from violence. I liked how the two tales ran parallel to each other but would have preferred if the original one by Marge Piercy had varied at the end.
However, once past that chapter, the nature of the tale changed and I was hooked. Shira loses custody of her child and leaves her “multi” (multicorporation) to return to the freetown of Tikva, a Jewish, feminist, cooperative enclave. A friend of her family is illegally creating a cyborg to defend the town from the multis. Shira gets involved professionally and then personally with Yod, the cyborg. Woven in book is the tale of the golem of Prague, created long ago to defend the Jewish ghetto from violence. I liked how the two tales ran parallel to each other but would have preferred if the original one by Marge Piercy had varied at the end.