Books : Woman on the Edge of Time
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by: Marge Piercy
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780449210826
ISBN: 0449210820
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: November 12, 1985
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: November 12, 1985
Sales Rank: 119306
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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Rating:  - Simply amazing
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.
Rating: - Neat !
This book is really interesting and shows that maybe you can have these kind of phenomenol experiences.
Rating: - If you were inspired by this novel, check on books on social ecology!
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Free SF Reader
Future society tour.
This is just a fairly average science fiction novel, and in a few ways, it could have been done (and was done) in the 19th century, among others. e.g. Spence, etc.
A woman gets transported to a future and experiences a female dominated society, and a bad one. Plenty of others you could read before this one.
Rating: - Excellent Utopian Text
This story resonates with anyone who enjoyed the message in Egalia's Daughter's or even the YA book, The Giver. It is not for the casual reader, as the time travel takes a bit to follow, but the emotive content is so superior, and the societal messages so clear, I think everyone should read this book at some point in his/her life. It is now one of my favorites, and the craft is so excellent, even a creative writer would love to examine its construction. A wonderful classic.
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