Debra Doyle has a rant on Young Adult Science Fiction
that unfortunately applies to lots o’ Christian literary and/or dramatic works.
Personal taste aside, The Giver fails the sf Plausibility Test for me.
I don’t see how a society like the one depicted could be attained/sustained
in anything other than a metaphorical world.And even considered as fantasy, rather than sf, the book is too damned obvious.
Things are the way they are because The Author is Making A Point;
things work out the way they do because The Author’s Point Requires It.And like I said before, this book is so damned full of
Meaning and Theme and Subtext that it would choke a whale.
At least Herman Melville gave us one hell of a Nantucket sleighride along with
the philosophy and allegory and metaphor and all.
“The Price of the Stars : Book One of Mageworlds (Mageworlds)†(Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald)
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