Your review basically describes my own reactions to the book 1:1.
My "favourite" moments: Community assembly where people talk quite unrestrainedly about n******. Cue everyone looking at the sole black farmer, who totally hasn't got a problem with it, and who is totally accepted because he is a "good black person". And the astronaut being OK with everyone looking at him suspiciously and assuming him to be a cannibal because hey, there can't be any racism any more, as after all they've allowed him to go into space.
Then, of course, there is the fact that civilisation is saved by building a nuclear power plant, that women are once again a bargaining chip to be married off so local important men can forge unions. And the "hey environmentalist, you should be happy with the technology-smashing cannibals, because that is what you wanted all the time!" thing was really cringe-worthy.
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Date: 2013-01-24 03:10 pm (UTC)My "favourite" moments: Community assembly where people talk quite unrestrainedly about n******. Cue everyone looking at the sole black farmer, who totally hasn't got a problem with it, and who is totally accepted because he is a "good black person". And the astronaut being OK with everyone looking at him suspiciously and assuming him to be a cannibal because hey, there can't be any racism any more, as after all they've allowed him to go into space.
Then, of course, there is the fact that civilisation is saved by building a nuclear power plant, that women are once again a bargaining chip to be married off so local important men can forge unions. And the "hey environmentalist, you should be happy with the technology-smashing cannibals, because that is what you wanted all the time!" thing was really cringe-worthy.