Glasshouse
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Tags: gender roles, library book, science fiction, sex change
Started: 19th August 2007
Finished: 30th August 2007
Rating: 9.0
Review
The futuristic techno-jargon occasionally made this book a bit draggy, but once I got into the meat of the plot, I was hooked. The basic premise is as follows: an amnesiac is put into an experimental society that is trying to recreate an early “dark age” in history, namely 1950-2040, a period about which society no longer has many records. It turns out, however, that there is a complex conspiracy at work that makes this bubble society not quite what it seems. To add a further twist, technological advances make it possible to completely change your body, so the main character, a man, wakes up inside the experimental society as a woman. Because of this, the author is able to play with gender roles and societal mores in a fairly interesting manner.
