This one was a friend recommendation as well as a start to my quest for more women-written science fiction, and it did not disappoint. Cat is a psion, a “freak” born of the socially forbidden union between a human and a Hydran, a race of telepathic aliens who have been exterminated by humans. His telepathic powers make him feared and hated, even though a past trauma has left him unable to access his psion abilities. He is recruited/coerced/blackmailed into taking a job as a glorified […]
I know all there is to know about the Lion Game…
Okay, that’s not true at all. I know very little about the Lion Game. This book is only 157 pages, and it could have used a few more. A lot is packed into those pages. It starts out well, but then it feels like a snowball gaining momentum down a hill, and I’m not sure I followed everything in the second half. Although I do know this. See exhibit A, our heroine, Telzey: She is 15. FIFTEEN. Way to go, 1973! Anyway. Telzey has psi […]