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Gee, it's been a long time... DARK WATER'S EMBRACE came out in 1998. But I have google alert me whenever it stumbles across reviews of my books, and this was in my inbox today, from the blog The Swivet: "Unrecognized Masterpiece: Dark Water’s Embrace by Stephen Leigh. I originally posted this bit on La Gringa & Co. on October 15th, 2005. (So I guess techincally this is a Swivet re-run!) But recently I found myself discussing this book again with a friend, so I thought I'd dig this out and point y'all to a book that I think was seriously overlooked when it was first published..."
She goes on to say: "In Dark Water’s Embrace, Leigh posits the idea of a third biological gender - the “mid-male” - nature’s answer to a low birth-rate on an environmentally unfriendly planet somewhere in humanity’s distant future. Much like Ursula LeGuin’s extraordinary LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, Leigh takes preconceived ideas about gender and sexuality and tosses them out the window, while at the same time doing something that so many sci-fi writers fail at: creating characters with whom we can genuinely empathize. If you can find a copy out there in a used bookstore somewhere, grab it!"
Ah, that makes me feel all warm and gooey! :-) It's nice to know that the book stuck with someone after all these years...
She goes on to say: "In Dark Water’s Embrace, Leigh posits the idea of a third biological gender - the “mid-male” - nature’s answer to a low birth-rate on an environmentally unfriendly planet somewhere in humanity’s distant future. Much like Ursula LeGuin’s extraordinary LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, Leigh takes preconceived ideas about gender and sexuality and tosses them out the window, while at the same time doing something that so many sci-fi writers fail at: creating characters with whom we can genuinely empathize. If you can find a copy out there in a used bookstore somewhere, grab it!"
Ah, that makes me feel all warm and gooey! :-) It's nice to know that the book stuck with someone after all these years...