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sioux_rowan's Reviews (635)
I love psychics in space - ESPers, telepaths, etc sign me up. Bester delivers on the ESPers. But like so many books of this era (and really even now), the use of women is so gross (and I do mean "use"). Would NOT recommend it.
Even the ESPer women seem to be little more than baby factories. Mary's purpose is part secretary, housekeeper, and lovelorn friend? (I don't know if friend is really accurate at all - can you consider someone a friend when you only view them as objects?).
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But the "relationship" between Barbara and Powell is the same tired (and gross) trope of older man and child love. She is literally regressed to an infant state, but he's "in love with her" - and when Mary literally calls him out on being in love with an infant (is it her body you love because you don't actually know her), he blows it off (as does the author by continuing the relationship). Yup, in the end the now-adult/adultish Barbara declares she remains in love with her "daddy" figure and is willing to be his mistress (because non-ESPers can't marry ESPers) - but it's cool because she's a latent ESPer, and Powell really does love his infant girlfriend (whom he's never interacted with as an adult woman).
Even the ESPer women seem to be little more than baby factories. Mary's purpose is part secretary, housekeeper, and lovelorn friend? (I don't know if friend is really accurate at all - can you consider someone a friend when you only view them as objects?).
spoiler:
Spoiler
But the "relationship" between Barbara and Powell is the same tired (and gross) trope of older man and child love. She is literally regressed to an infant state, but he's "in love with her" - and when Mary literally calls him out on being in love with an infant (is it her body you love because you don't actually know her), he blows it off (as does the author by continuing the relationship). Yup, in the end the now-adult/adultish Barbara declares she remains in love with her "daddy" figure and is willing to be his mistress (because non-ESPers can't marry ESPers) - but it's cool because she's a latent ESPer, and Powell really does love his infant girlfriend (whom he's never interacted with as an adult woman).
