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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 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.
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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