Okay, I’m halfway through the series and I’m STILL not sure I understand what Butler is doing.
In part, it’s because Butler isn’t the kind of author who DOES things. Her work is rarely reducible to an allegory or moral. It’s always, more than anything else, what does it mean to be a human under these circumstances? In some ways, all of her books are thought experiments: given humans, what would they do?
So what comes next. I suppose that’s what reading the next book will tell me.