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A review by expendablemudge
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
3.0
Real Rating: 3.25* of five
One day, I hope someone makes an adaptation of this. The two that've been made so far are execrable.
The book itself? 1970s. Heteronormative (despite choosing Sir Richard Francis Burton, sexual adventurer, as its hero. The persistent rumor that he walked on the wild side gets explained away, with a side-eye to Lady Burton's unconscionable burning of his papers). Misogynistic, though more mildly than I'd expected.
A shockless technological Heaven brings all 37 billion of us who will ever, it seems, exist, back to life to serve as lab rats for some of our descendents called, without seeming irony, Ethicals. Burton is the curve-breaker, and bids fair to derail their plan. Whatever it might be, however that might occur, isn't clear yet.
I'll go on, though the impulse to do so is very mild. I'm checking the books out of the library so I am not out of pocket; I wouldn't buy them or recommend other buy them.
One day, I hope someone makes an adaptation of this. The two that've been made so far are execrable.
The book itself? 1970s. Heteronormative (despite choosing Sir Richard Francis Burton, sexual adventurer, as its hero. The persistent rumor that he walked on the wild side gets explained away, with a side-eye to Lady Burton's unconscionable burning of his papers). Misogynistic, though more mildly than I'd expected.
A shockless technological Heaven brings all 37 billion of us who will ever, it seems, exist, back to life to serve as lab rats for some of our descendents called, without seeming irony, Ethicals. Burton is the curve-breaker, and bids fair to derail their plan. Whatever it might be, however that might occur, isn't clear yet.
I'll go on, though the impulse to do so is very mild. I'm checking the books out of the library so I am not out of pocket; I wouldn't buy them or recommend other buy them.