Blood in the Fruit Marqsan Cycle Book 4 eBook L Timmel Duchamp
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Blood in the Fruit, the hard-hitting fourth volume of the five-novel Marq'ssan Cycle, focuses sharp, analytical attention on human rights issues. The novel opens in October 2086. After ten years' absence, the Marq'ssan Fleet returns to Earth to determine whether humans should be quarantined, and a young alien, unprepared for the shock of human culture, becomes a dangerous loose cannon taking violent, unilateral action. In the Free Zone, a flood of renegades led by Elizabeth Weatherall establish a fortress; even Hazel Bell, Weatherall's lover, doesn't know what they're up to. In the US, when the government responds to increasing dissent and civil disorder by ratcheting up its repressive tactics, brave and dedicated human rights activists like Celia Espin join forces with the Free Zones in a global challenge that threatens to undermine governments around the world. Blood in the Fruit offers a grand, sweeping story through the eyes of four individuals with markedly contrasting perspectives and experience.
Blood in the Fruit Marqsan Cycle Book 4 eBook L Timmel Duchamp
The 4th entry in L. Timmel Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle, a landmark piece of literature, feminist (that is to say, concerned with power, politics, and relations) science fiction thriller of a series, continues the established combination of stimulating, vigorous writing and complex layering of psychological insights.One of the main POV's is Hazel Bell's, a service tech lover of Elizabeth Weatherall, as they both turn renegade and move to the Seattle Free Zone, an independent anarchist state which splintered off from the dictatorial United States. From Seattle they work to undermine the Executive system - a rigid hierchical social and political caste system ruling the US. We get a look into the dynamics of their relationship - Elizabeth, the cold, ruthless Executive, is in love and now working for the "good" side. But what she achieves isn't quite redemption.
The other main POV is from Alexandra Sedgewick, 16-year old daughter of Robert Sedgewick, the head of Security - the most powerful division in the Executive system, as he invites her to live with him and grooms her to be his successor.
The subject focused on is one of human rights, the respect for the value of human life and dignity. I was worried that book 3 (Tsunami) was establishing Elizabeth Weatherall as a sympathetic character, as she was experiencing guilt and regret over her prior actions, but "Blood in the Fruit" shows exactly why she is one of the most chilling scary characters I've come across. She has an ability to compartamentalize people, to fragment them into their various uses and functions. I had a new insight into why what she had done to Kay Zeldin in "Renegade" was so damaging - she wanted to isolate one aspect of Kay's usefulness (her power over Sedgewick) by destroying, intentionally or incidentally, Kay's independence, physical and intellectual freedom, self-respect, hope. That was the tragedy of "Renegade" - that Elizabeth, brilliant as she is, thought so little of Kay, that she would destroy this remarkable person - a hero and a leader - for a use that was so petty.
One remarkable quality of the Marq'ssan books is that in my experience they don't have to read in sequential order. References to prior events are minimal, and individual POV's are also mostly independent, so you can follow just one POV at a time. I do however advise to read the story of the young Alexandra Sedgewick in this book before the narrative of the older Alexandra in book 5 (Stretto), as the latter is much more intense.
Each book and POV complete a storyline and fill in a part of the big picture, but leaves you only more curious - what does it mean? After reading all 5 books, I'm eager to read the beginning again. Don't hesitate to pick this one up.
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Blood in the Fruit Marqsan Cycle Book 4 eBook L Timmel Duchamp Reviews
The 4th entry in L. Timmel Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle, a landmark piece of literature, feminist (that is to say, concerned with power, politics, and relations) science fiction thriller of a series, continues the established combination of stimulating, vigorous writing and complex layering of psychological insights.
One of the main POV's is Hazel Bell's, a service tech lover of Elizabeth Weatherall, as they both turn renegade and move to the Seattle Free Zone, an independent anarchist state which splintered off from the dictatorial United States. From Seattle they work to undermine the Executive system - a rigid hierchical social and political caste system ruling the US. We get a look into the dynamics of their relationship - Elizabeth, the cold, ruthless Executive, is in love and now working for the "good" side. But what she achieves isn't quite redemption.
The other main POV is from Alexandra Sedgewick, 16-year old daughter of Robert Sedgewick, the head of Security - the most powerful division in the Executive system, as he invites her to live with him and grooms her to be his successor.
The subject focused on is one of human rights, the respect for the value of human life and dignity. I was worried that book 3 (Tsunami) was establishing Elizabeth Weatherall as a sympathetic character, as she was experiencing guilt and regret over her prior actions, but "Blood in the Fruit" shows exactly why she is one of the most chilling scary characters I've come across. She has an ability to compartamentalize people, to fragment them into their various uses and functions. I had a new insight into why what she had done to Kay Zeldin in "Renegade" was so damaging - she wanted to isolate one aspect of Kay's usefulness (her power over Sedgewick) by destroying, intentionally or incidentally, Kay's independence, physical and intellectual freedom, self-respect, hope. That was the tragedy of "Renegade" - that Elizabeth, brilliant as she is, thought so little of Kay, that she would destroy this remarkable person - a hero and a leader - for a use that was so petty.
One remarkable quality of the Marq'ssan books is that in my experience they don't have to read in sequential order. References to prior events are minimal, and individual POV's are also mostly independent, so you can follow just one POV at a time. I do however advise to read the story of the young Alexandra Sedgewick in this book before the narrative of the older Alexandra in book 5 (Stretto), as the latter is much more intense.
Each book and POV complete a storyline and fill in a part of the big picture, but leaves you only more curious - what does it mean? After reading all 5 books, I'm eager to read the beginning again. Don't hesitate to pick this one up.
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