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This book is racist garbage
I'm an avid reader of science fiction: Ursula Le Guin, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov. I'm also from New York— and a native of the uptown Manhattan neighborhood where this novel takes place. I was really looking forward to it. But it's basically a racist rant. Every villain is white, and worse if male. There's no character development beyond pure identity politics, on every damn page. The writing is terrible. And there are no ideas. The tree cried when it died uselessly to produce the paper used to print this bigoted garbage, and it is in my view a crime against literature, no, against the idea that we have a common humanity, to promote it.
May 2020 · Books · verified purchase
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