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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780449210826
ISBN number: 0449210820
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: November 12, 1985
Publishing house: Fawcett
Release Date: November 12, 1985
Sale Popularity Level: 10355
Studio: Fawcett
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Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....
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Hi. Before i'll share my opinion i must tell "I hate reading". Yes i know how it makes me look, but i can't do anything, I am just getting bored on therd page and start to sleep on forth. People kept saying that I just didn't read a good book. I almost lost my faith to find something that will interest me until I get this novel into my hands. story is very symbolic and covers a lot of social problems by creating fiction world. Loved it.
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Let me be the skunk at the picnic here on Amazon and say I didn't really enjoy this book as much as others here did.
The problem is that it tries to be a Time Travel novel, but also seeks to be an expose on the state of the care of mental patients, but the fact that it doesn't know what kind of novel it is makes it hopelessly muddled.
To add to the confusion, this 1976 book is also about "Women's liberation" and empowerment in the face of abusive men. Since women are apparently the book's market, that makes sense. (I picked it up because of the science fiction theme.)
To be fair, it does have some good science fiction elements. Her travel to the future (spoilers follow) which is accomplished in her mind, is unique, and the future the author paints is indeed intriguing and quite unlike our own. The language and jargon used in the future world is easy to grasp, though different enough to be interesting, though I found myself bogged down in too much detail near the end of the book (a funeral oration and the accompanying rituals seemed to go on for 20 pages.)
The fictional expose of the mental institution was also quite interesting, and merited a book of its own. I'm certain that back in the 70s, and even today, there are places like this, although I doubt that implanting devices into mental patients' heads (surely a plot device) has ever taken place. Still, her state of mind and struggle to remain sane were quite moving at times.
Her struggle with men in her life was also quite poignant, though as a man, I have to say that portraying every single man in the book (at least in the present) as an abuser was a bit over the top. It's telling that the men in the future were downright effeminate, so much so that she didn't even know the gender of the person who came to greet her from the future until halfway through the book, and even then... .
The ending was quite a disappointment. It kind of just fizzles out. It's almost as if the author gave up on the character and didn't know how to end it, after dragging the future events out far longer than necessary. I wanted to see who won the "battle" for the future, or whether it was all in her head (as is implied, I suppose. And if so, what a scam on sci fi fans!)
Bottom line, the book is a bit dated, is confused as to what story it should focus on, and is a bit too man-hating. It has elements that are quite good, but that's balanced with the problems I've outlined here.
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This book is a must read for anyone. I think this is a book that is philosophically outstanding and it goes to show how our culture is completely alienating to all the participants. This book paints what i can only describe as the most hope-filled prophesy for the year 2137.
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This book is really interesting and shows that maybe you can have these kind of phenomenol experiences.
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Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time," is perhaps my favorite utopian novel. I speak here of utopia as a "good place," not a "perfect imaginary place," though the two are often confused. This novel is a prime example of a wonderful critical utopia, showing utopia not as a static "end of history" but rather as a dynamic, free, and ever-progressing and ever-improving new beginning of history. The society the novel showcases is clearly based on the principles of libertarian socialism and is not only world of racial equality, feminism, classlessness, and sexual liberation, but is also based on sound ecological principles. The books shows the interconnectedness of social and ecological questions which is so often overlooked in today's world.
The contrast the novel presents between the world of Luciente's time and Connie's time, and for that matter between Luciente's world and the monstrous dystopia of the future they are at war with creates a riveting tension in the reader's mind. The tension between "what is," and "what could be," moves the reader to dare to consider a better world, to imagine its possibility.
One of the reasons I enjoy this novel so much is that the future world it presents to Connie Ramos is one that, given a few adjustments, could easily be based on the principles of social ecology. What is social ecology? Simply put, it is a comprehensive social theory and philosophy founded by thinker Murray Bookchin that states that our envirnonmental problems are the result of social problems and that to re-harmonize the human world and the rest of nature we must re-harmonize our social world. We shall have to create a revolutionary movement and remake society by abolishing social hierarchy and domination and creating directly democratic institutions to challenge the status quo. I encourage anyone who loved this novel and hopes for a beautiful world like the one depicted to read works by Murray Bookchin and other social ecologists like Janet Biehl. Do look into it, you will see a philosophy that offers hope and a plan of action to our disillusioned and frightened world.
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