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    Halfway Human

    By Caroline Ives Gilman

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    About this ebook

    “Halfway Human is a first novel that should help establish its author as a major new voice in science fiction.”—New York Review of Science Fiction

    “Beauty, pain, wit, and wisdom all suffuse this powerful novel, as it uses imagined futures to reveal our own world in starkest clarity...and yes, with a whisper of hope.” —Locus

    Tedla is a 'bland,' an asexual class of people that exist only to serve their fellow beings.

    Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen a bland before. 

    They come together after Tedla is found light-years away from its home planet—alone, isolated and suicidal. Val's mission is to help Tedla recover. But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet.

    Little does the rest of the universe know of the hidden world of the blands, a world that hides shocking secrets and unspeakable crimes.

    Halfway Human is a mesmerizing look at an intricately created alien world which is strange and distant, yet hauntingly familiar.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Pick
    Release dateJul 26, 2017
    ISBN9781604504668
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    • 4/5
      The Gammadians are an offshoot of the human race who have created a planet full of humans who are neuter until adolescence, when they become either male, female, or remain neuter. The neuters are asexual and are called 'blands', forming an underclass who takes care of all the menial tasks due to their lower intelligence. They're not even classified as 'human'.I really liked this world and learning more about the main character. It explores gender, slavery, and what happens when cultures come into contact with each other.I believe this is out of print, which is a shame. Fortunately we have the internet to help us find OOP books.
    • 4/5
      a seminal study of the nature of gender, the use of eugenics, and how to define humanity, delivered through the eyes of isolated cultures in the far future - with appealing characters, and a passionate message.
    • 5/5
      Just as good the second time. What a wonderful book.
    • 5/5
      Superb book. The character of Tedla challenges the reader to analyze gender roles, which frankly are assigned almost as arbitrarily in our culture as in Tedla's.