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Cargando... Moonstar Odyssey (1977)por David Gerrold
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Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel: In the distant future, a woman struggles to find her identity and her destiny . . . She was born in the moonstar's shadow, when the storms of Satlik raged their worst. Because of this, Jobe was different. The family never spoke of it, but everyone knew Jobe was special. So Jobe came to know of it, too. She had a destiny beyond that of Choice, beyond that moment when she would finally have to decide for Reethe, Mother of the World, or for Dakka, Father, Son, and Lover. For the others it was easy, but not for her, not for Jobe. So she was sent to Option, the island of learning, to decide her gender and become who she must be. And slowly, ever so slowly, Jobe retreated from the world, from the time of decision. Then the ultimate cataclysm wracked the planet, threatening all her people had struggled to create--and Jobe came forth at last to fulfill her destiny and begin the quest that the moonstar had set for her so many years ago . . . "Reminds me of the work of Ursula K. LeGuin [sic], in its exploration of gender and sexuality, and of the work of Theodore Sturgeon, in its lyrical style and endless pondering over the mystery of love. There's also a touch of a 'hard' science fiction writer such as Larry Niven, in a section which describes the terraforming of the planet in a detailed, realistic style." --SFF Chronicles Previously published as Moonstar Odyssey No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Despite that recognition it's out of print, and it hasn't garnered good ratings (or any reviews) on Amazon, Goodreads or Librarything. I think part of that is that it has some unsettling material, while not quite being groundbreaking. The premise and themes remind me quite a bit of Ursula LeGuin's 1969 novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, which dealt with a race of hermaphrodites who are only gendered for a few days in a cycle and can be either male or female--but are always referred to as "she." In Moonstar Odyssey children are born ungendered, and when they begin adolescence can choose to be either male or female for the rest of their lives. If this isn't unsettling enough, it deals with child sexuality, since individuals approaching adolescence experiment trying on the different roles. The story centers on Jobe, someone in the throes of "Choice" while her (and all genders are always referred to with the female pronoun) planet goes awry. For quite a while in the book a reader is unsure if Jobe's people are human or mutants or genetically engineered--but we know from the first their planet is terraformed and ecologically fragile. Despite the hints of adventure in the title though, this is a very interior story, told with a mix of third and first person and including some of the planet's legends, history, and geology and ecology. It feels less of a story than LeGuin's novel and as a result might feel a bit like an uninspired copy. At least that's why I think it hasn't endured, although I really did enjoy it. (