We often cite Handmaid's Tale to represent dystopian/ coercive reproductive politics. Are there other sci-fi or fantasy texts that would work as well or... even better to signify the same?
With all due hesitation for anything on that topic, Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom's Hive".
I never need to read that again and it has given me a pretty strong aversion response anytime someone suggests things even close to the concepts in that book.
Today I learned that there remains one legitimate use of organophosphates.
It would have to be set in Oregon, too, wouldn't it. Because of course it was.
Yep! For a while, the State of Jefferson was where all the cool communes and compounds were. Those who were a bitty nuttier and more racist had to go to Idaho.
Yeah I was growing up there when the Rashneesh, Church of the First Born, and who knows what else was going on. And that was just mid valley and up east. Who the hell knows what people got up to all through the coast range. Had friends that grew up in communes down the coast. Wild country indeed.
I was referring to Phil's reference of "Hellstrom's Hive" and the horrors it contains. I have a small amount of personal experience with organophosphates, and a strong distaste for them.
If Kindle ever suggests that you read "Perfect Union", DON'T. It's about a Hellstrom society with several layers of even more shit, plus incest and CSA.
I don't trust Amazon suggestions for a multitude of reasons, that book being a big one. I don't know what algorithm they're using to decide what to suggest, but it is broken beyond belief.
That is an appropriate reaction. I swear that Dune's made Frank Herbert determined to make sure that no one confused his books with a "positive, uplifting tale" again. Well written, good, but in no way pleasing.
