Title: Speculative fiction at its best
Review: I read this book for the first time at the tender age of 16. Eight years later, I have probably read it at least eight more times, and each time, it is more disturbing, more absorbing, more amazing. Tepper has a canny ability to create worlds that are completely real when we are submerged in them, and completely bizarre when we emerge.Some of your reviewers are horrified at the ideas that are expressed as commonplaces in Tepper's world: genetic selection, emotional manipulation, government secrecy. What is more horrifying to me is the idea that these ideas would be ignored or banned. Although I, too, am disturbed by the prevailing ethos of Women's Country, as a woman, I can feel an eerie attraction to it. That fact, in itself, says a lot about the "real world" and its attitudes toward women.
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