who only by moving can balance

Explicitly about race, this time.

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Dear everyone who has ever recommended Sheri S Tepper to me: please don't ever do so again.

I have been pointed at a pretty damning review [SO MANY TRIGGER WARNING, see below], of which the best part is:

On top of all this, the sea level is rising rapidly - oh , not because of the icecaps melting for anthropogenic reasons, that happened already and wasn't so serious. This time, it's because ice comets which were trapped deep inside the Earth when it was still forming are melting and the water is seeping upwards, raising the sea levels to a point where only tall mountains will survive.

When I say "the best part", I mean the rest of it discusses paedophilia, cultural appropriation, ~fantasy-Asia~ and talking. rapist. horses. If you can face wading through that, though, then the (well-written!) review is very much worth a read if only for the squawks of horror you will undoubtedly emit. Seriously, people, we are talking OH JOHN RINGO NO levels of dire, here.

... as someone who's been repeatedly recced stuff by Tepper on the grounds of "trans* stuff" and "queer stuff", er. Well. Yeah. Put it this way, the only book of hers I've read was kind of gross about genderfluidity and three quarters of the queer characters died, never mind the fact that it was the kind of fantasy novel that The Colour Of Magic was written to spork, in which EVERYONE IS ALREADY CARRYING EVERYONE ELSE'S QUEST ITEMS.

edit: holy shit someone in comments at that posting points out that this person seriously advocates sterilising mentally ill people and sending them to concentration camps walled cities. WOW.