![]() ![]() Our bodies are ourselves - but they are not entirely ourselves. I say problem because human bodies are a source of profound tension, both in Ascension and in fiction and philosophy and human existence more generally. Polyamory gets a bit more of the Very Special Episode treatment, but this aspect is presented as bridging a gap between two different planetary cultures, one more sexually conservative than the other.Īnd all the characters are compelling, and several scenes made me gasp out loud (Adul!), but what I can't wait to talk about is how this book treats the problem of humans having bodies. ![]() The characters' disability is a plot point, but it's not The Plot Point - the same goes for queerness and race: they're baked in, functions of character rather than Moving Moments. But like we saw with Her Love, Her Land, this book was written from deeply within the perspective of the identities it represents. She falls in love with a disabled starship captain who's in a polyamorous relationship with another queer woman: a medic who plans on having children with a man-slash-engineer-slash-sometime-wolf. ![]() ![]() It's easy to say that Jacqueline Koyanagi's luscious debut Ascensionticks just about every box on the anti- kyriarchy bingo card: our heroine is a queer disabled woman of color (in space!). ![]()
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