Started: 8/11/2011
Completed: 8/21/2011
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: I like John Varley's stuff and had read some of Lynn's stuff, so when Varley had the recommendation on the front cover, well, that seemed like recommendation enough.
Review: The adventures of a sadist slaver. Ugh. This book has little, if any redemptive quality. I had hoped for some sense of the horrors of slavery (there is plenty of that) and how slavery doesn't work. Instead, this book is a half-hearted effort to both condemn slavery and to demonstrate that it DOES work. Yuck. I'm disappointed that Varley gave this book a recommendation. The scifi components are marginal at best in my opinion. This could just have easily have happened in the 18th century with very little change to the plot.
