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2.0 out of 5 stars
Changing times not kind to this book,
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This review is from: Rogue Queen (Paperback)
This 1951 novel is part of the author's "Viagens Interplanetarias" series which was, according to Wikipedia, his "most extended work." I have not read the other books in this series, but apparently "Rogue Queen" was the author's "most influential" Viagens novel and "one of the earliest science fiction novels to deal with sexual themes" (also via Wikipedia). A review on the back of the paperback edition I own (1951 edition) says "Mr. de Camp instills a lot of subtlety in his story" of the conversion of an entire planet of asexual, bee-like beings to good, old-fashioned Earth values. "Subtle" this novel may have seemed in 1951, but to the eyes of this post-sexual revolution female reader, it was a laughably heavy-handed ode to male dominance. In addition, the book espouses, albeit in a breezy and somewhat unconscious manner, anti-communist, pro-imperialist sentiments throughout. Such beliefs were de rigueur in the early fifties but produce in the modern reader a different reaction than the author undoubtedly wished: one finds oneself disliking the Earthmen and hoping against hope that the native queen would resist the invaders and their patriarchal--and patronizing--beliefs.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good fiction, for its era,
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This review is from: Rogue Queen (Paperback)
This book is a product of the time in which it was written, during which women were thought of as dependent and in need of direction from males. This comes out very strongly when Iroedh begins to develop into a fertile, mature female and has to learn to play the psychological, war of the sexes-type of "game" with her chosen mate, whose chauvinist views are straight out of the '40's and '50's. In spite of its sexism, the book is highly enjoyable as recreational reading and even sheds some light on the Communist panic that swept the nation during the time.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Blatantly sexist, but otherwise enjoyable.,
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This review is from: Rogue Queen (Paperback)
In this book becoming truly female meant becoming needy & incompetent. If you can ooverlook that it's an enjoyable book. Decamp's better at alternate history then this kind of space age story. I think it'd be false to assume he's sexist & it's not quite as bad ,in that way, as I have said.
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