Yes, definitely worth putting on your list. General spoilers follow:
two societies survived a climate disaster. One lost technology, the
other preserved itself by going underground and advancing
technologically. And, accidentally, triggered genetic mutations
connected to intelligence and telepathy, which they eventually
deliberately worked to enhance. Explorers from the tech side
eventually found the regressed society and . . . like you do? One
abducted a young woman and inseminated her. Forty years later and two
generations on, two telepaths come of age in a community of
non-telepaths. Morrow, the tech society, is quite disdainful of the
"unrestricted breeding" permitted in the regressed society (and by
'unrestricted breeding' I mean a clearly abusive paternalistic system
where women are slaves and men gain power through impregnating as many
women as possible, so I really don't know where the "unrestricted"
exactly comes in). Anyway, the second book is a rather painful
exercise in not cultural relativism, and there is a lot of talk of
genetics.
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Date: 2016-01-18 08:32 pm (UTC)Yes, definitely worth putting on your list. General spoilers follow: two societies survived a climate disaster. One lost technology, the other preserved itself by going underground and advancing technologically. And, accidentally, triggered genetic mutations connected to intelligence and telepathy, which they eventually deliberately worked to enhance. Explorers from the tech side eventually found the regressed society and . . . like you do? One abducted a young woman and inseminated her. Forty years later and two generations on, two telepaths come of age in a community of non-telepaths. Morrow, the tech society, is quite disdainful of the "unrestricted breeding" permitted in the regressed society (and by 'unrestricted breeding' I mean a clearly abusive paternalistic system where women are slaves and men gain power through impregnating as many women as possible, so I really don't know where the "unrestricted" exactly comes in). Anyway, the second book is a rather painful exercise in not cultural relativism, and there is a lot of talk of genetics.