TODAY I AM A DARKOVER BOOK

COMYN LORD: I am so angry and celibate! It has something to do with my psychic powers.

HIS DAD: Cry moar. You are going to be a warrior and awesome and give me millions of awesome grandchildren because I have inadequacy issues.

COMYN LORD: I hate you, father! I fantasize about killing you with such eerie vividness that I must flee the room to rest my burning forehead against the cool stones of the corridor wall, terrified by how near I have come to patricide this day.

HIS DAD: (That is normal on Darkover.)

COMYN LADY: HI I’M HERE FOR THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE

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One-to-two sentence reviews again

Neither Darkover Nor Manga

• Fool Moon (Dresden Files 1), Jim Butcher

  I heard somewhere that Jim Butcher and the Ah! My Goddess guy can combine to form a bigger misogynist.

• Dawn (Xenogenesis 1), Octavia Butler

  Octavia Butler punches you repeatedly in the stomach.

• Adulthood Rites and Imago (Xenogenesis 2, 3), Octavia Butler

  Octavia Butler punches you in the stomach more lightly, provides gender-bendy but oddly heteronormative tentacle sex utopia, repeats.

Darkover

• The Spell Sword, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Guy from earth lands on the planet of the red-haired sorceresses and goes native (he doesn’t turn into a red-haired sorceress, ’cause that would be, like, weird). Disney could make the movie of this without changing it too much.

• The Forbidden Tower, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Guy from earth’s adjustment to his new psychic family life is hampered by his wife’s psychic powers accidentally zapping his testicles and his attraction to his sister- and brother-in-law. Maybe orgies will solve these problems?

• Heritage of Hastur, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Being gay is wrong and bad, but Regis Hastur thinks he might be gay! Betraying the Comyn is wrong and bad, but Lew Alton thinks he might betray the Comyn! OH NOES

  (I would argue that “OH NOES” does not constitute a sentence.)

• Stormqueen!, Marion Zimmer Bradley

  People have terrifying uncontrollable psychic powers that may destroy them and EVERYONE THEY LOVE, and pregnancy is TERRIFYING, and everyone’s family is trying to KILL THEM, and so is the WEATHER.

Manga

• Yotsuba&!, volumes 1-3, Kiyohiko Azuma

  cannot form sentence dying of cute

• Crimson Spell, volume 1, Ayano Yamane

  Ridiculous high fantasy comedy/porn. Why is it that transforming into your demon form always seems to involve stripes these days?

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