That may not be the appropriate yardstick with which to measure a book, but it is a good indicator of my affection for what Gilman has produced.ĭark Orbit is set in Gilman's Twenty Planets universe. Enter Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman, a novel I'd argue is destined to join the ranks of science fiction I'll have no choice but to teach, so I will have an attentive audience of thirty people to ramble at about why this book deserves our attention. If I were to make a claim about what keeps me coming back to science fiction as a genre, it would be this: science fiction is often at its best when it readily centralizes the complications and concerns of a fictional reflection of our own world, whether it be critical explorations of utopia and dystopia (Le Guin's The Dispossessed or Robinson's The Gold Coast), deconstructions of patriarchal institutions (Russ's The Female Man), or narratives of colonization and their ethical implications (Buckell's Xenowealth Saga or Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest).
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