Lesbian Science Fiction: Two Reviews
Aug. 14th, 2014 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinI read Cognate by R.C. Brojim. I would give it 3 1/2 stars, rounding up if pressed, good but not great.
It is a treklike space opera involving first contact, piracy, and a mysterious disease, but without much romance, and also a cishetist explora command determined to put all the queers on separate ships. It put me off, at first, because I thought the author was coercively third-gendering intersex people, by default, rather than noncoercively third-gendering genderless aliens. It is rather violent too.
I read Independent Flight by K.L. Tremaine a while back. I would give it 3 stars, though I have high hopes for her upcoming works.
It is another treklike space opera, about a confrontation between a few smugglers and a few fleet personnel, but without much about what seems like an interesting setting, and without romance. And given the costs of the drug war in the here and now, I had a hard time sympathizing with the fleet personnel in the story.
It is a treklike space opera involving first contact, piracy, and a mysterious disease, but without much romance, and also a cishetist explora command determined to put all the queers on separate ships. It put me off, at first, because I thought the author was coercively third-gendering intersex people, by default, rather than noncoercively third-gendering genderless aliens. It is rather violent too.
I read Independent Flight by K.L. Tremaine a while back. I would give it 3 stars, though I have high hopes for her upcoming works.
It is another treklike space opera, about a confrontation between a few smugglers and a few fleet personnel, but without much about what seems like an interesting setting, and without romance. And given the costs of the drug war in the here and now, I had a hard time sympathizing with the fleet personnel in the story.
