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Location: UK, in Devon
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If you are replying to this thread, please try to put waffle in the first couple of lines in case you inadvertantly spoil the plot for someone who wants to read the book and wants to know nothing before they start.
If you have not read the book, I'm not sure if I recommend it or not. Not SciFi, but sort of "futureworld", and somewhat weird, about singers and song and power and emotions.
Spoilers below here. Scroll down.
I just read it. Author Orson Scott Card (always makes me think of "'orse and cart", but that is just me)
The bit that struck me was both the positive portrayal of homosexuality and the awful revenge taken by the authorities on the innocent and seduced lover of the hero, and in a weird way, on the hero himself.
The lover was emasculated, totally "We thought he was trying to bugger you", and the hero was almost destroyed by an orgasm that he could never have again.
Card is a Mormon. Is this a part of "love the sinner, hate the sin"?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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