Earthseed by Pamela SargentI came across this book while looking at a request someone had for a book they had once read. Someone may have mentioned these novels or I might have just stumbled upon them at the time. Either way I decided since I have read Pamela Sargent's Venus series and enjoyed he...
This dystopian story deals with the reversal of roles between men and women, and who holds the power. The investigation of what might be different if women were in charge was a fascinating premise, heightened by the meticulous physical descriptions of people, places and survival tactics on both ...
Well-written and, at first, engaging. No issues with overused favorite words or expressions, free of gross grammatical error, etc. Characters are very well-developed, especially for such a short novel. The author is efficient! However, there is a desert of nothing around the middle of the story w...
There are times one must wonder why it takes so long to complete a trilogy. Certainly Venus of Shadows begged for a sequel. Let's finish the terraforming of Venus and end this episode of future space history.The novel's central figure, Mahala Liangharad is a test tube descendant (granddaughter)...
Similar to "Shore of Women" the first book in the Venus Trilogy by Pamela Sargent tackles issues of sex, gender, power, and authority. Set over 600 years in the future, the Earth has come under control of Islam but not in the form we think of today, not even close to what you might think of in th...