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The Moon and the Other
Saga: S. & S. Mar. 2017. 608p. ISBN 9781481481441. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781481481465. SF
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A century or more into the future, lunar colonies representing many varieties of Earth cultures thrive in discrete settlements in their pressurized and self-contained environments. One community, the Society of Cousins, deliberately breaks with tradition by creating a matriarchal utopia in which men are encouraged to follow their passions, intellectual pursuits, and sexual desires. In exchange, they cannot vote. Born into this social environment, Mira has held herself at a sardonic distance since her brother's death. But as the other patriarchal lunar colonies begin to interfere in the society's workings, Mira places her relationships, her freedom, and possibly the safety of her colony in danger as she joins political revolutionaries and uncovers long-hidden secrets.
VERDICT Kessel's (The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories) wonderfully weighty novel is speculative fiction at its finest. That the freedoms sought by the revolutionary men of the Society of Cousins reflect the ones that 20th-century suffragettes fought to achieve is not lost on the reader. Political, theological, sensual, this is impossible to put down.
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