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Title: The Child Garden : A Low Comedy by Geoff Ryman ISBN: 0-312-89023-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a Dystopia
Comment: I'm writing this review in response to people who seem to feel Ryman's world of the future is a dystopia. I feel the point of the book is that you're left unsure in this regard. We're told the story from the point of view of an outsider to the system certainly everyone in the system is very nice to her. They are always willing to help even if it sometimes means bending their own laws (Hiding Rolfa) or going far out of their way to do so (as with the previous case or helping Milena in her career). Even the main body of gov't is not a hinderance, but as benevolent as the individuals despite Mileana's mistrust. And it's not as though the people who have gone through the reading are stepford wives either. They are still unique individuals as we see through the affair between Berowne and the Princess. People are just nicer and know more (if not necessarily more intelligent). I do not believe Ryman meant this book to be anti-genetic engineering so much as just showing us how it can change and letting us make up our own minds. As for me I don't see any harm in the possiblity of our world turning into that of this book as it is definately going change in some way. Certainly we are different from the societies before us, so as change must I see no harm in this coming. It's just different not bad.
On the other hand, I would never want to be read myself. I am a very happy well adjusted homosexual and that is something I advocate doesn't need to be fixed. Of course, perhaps I make to much out of orientation, certainly in heaven people won't have any sexual desire at all. And perhaps this means it is something I should not be so worried about giving up on earth despite the knowledge that I won't miss it once I've left it either with death or with being read. I mention this quandary because this and indeed all of Ryman's books (I've actually only read this Was and Lust, but I'm assuming) give rise to constant reveries on my staunchest beliefs. It is for this reason I always think of them as, if not specifically Christian, religious books. Very few authors have the ability to keep me tossing and turning all night from considering what they've written. I think that perhaps C.S. Lewis is the only other. I can't reccomend Ryman well enough and believe those who haven't read him are missing out on something extraordinary.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wow a book with a Lesbian character you could love.
Comment: Very convoluted like the virus infected brains of the people of earth in this book. Almost a utopian, communist maifesto. I like it but am afraid I will have to read it again. He writes moving, interesting and unique descriptions of a world that has grown young and aimless; with everyone trying to recapture their youth and the dire consequences of manipulating our DNA. I wonder how he feels about GE food? Very thought provoking. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Speculative Fiction
Comment: Probably the best book I've read in years (and I just finished an MA in Lit, so I've read a lot of them! :) . It's a cross between Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut, only without the cynicism! The category of science-fiction isn't broad enough to contain it, and I'd likely label it Speculative Fiction instead.
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Title: Lust: Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities. by Geoff Ryman ISBN: 0312312113 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois ISBN: 0312308604 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Was by Geoff Ryman ISBN: 0140178724 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ISBN: 0345457684 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: 253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman ISBN: 0312182953 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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