![]() Their masculinity is also visible when the caravan brothers hire them to protect them through their journey in Wildeeps which was believed to be extremely dangerous. By having control over your emotions and through physical strength, a show of manhood is visible. I’m curious, however, about the use of TSIM TSOA, and wonder if this acronym for what seems to be some kind of philosophy gets more fully explained later in the book (or in the sequel)? No need to go into more than just a yes/no, if you know. Wilson exploited the theme of masculinity by having most of his characters male. Soon, however, I’ve found myself soaking in the language and reveling in it. Nigga, it was some official shit you just did” and then followed up by “exigencies of FTL” and “psionic phylogeny necessary to sublimnify the organism.” I just would read for a bit and then have to put it down for a bit to let my brain digest it. The initial world-building of a sword-and-board style fantasy, with the characters code-switching languages really threw me… The classic talk of quests, caravan guards, killer beasts in a dark forest, and gods is interspersed with “That was gold, my nigga. He won the Crawford award for best first novel of 2016, and his works have been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. Really, really loving the writing, though it’s taken me a bit to wrap my brain around it and sink my teeth in due to the self-same writing :). KAI ASHANTE WILSON was the 2010 Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion writing workshop in San Diego. I’m about halfway through the book (just finished chapter Three of Seven). ![]()
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