In most Romances, the heroine must teach the hero to feel and to express his feelings. Thematically perfect for the Tiptree. I admired its brains and awareness of its subject matter immensely. It's a wonderfully imagined externalization of all the little decisions we make every day that add up to who we will be as adults. The flip side of Tepper's Gate to Women's Country .
War is a rugby match to the death, and the world is run by wise old women.
A very funny, pointed, extraordinary look at maleness. A marvelous book. That's just the beginning. A story of heterosexual love as a sick compulsion. In this sharp, funny, clever story the disease undoes the very fabric of time and space.