Earthsong
In Earthsong, the trilogy’s long-awaited finale, the Aliens have abandoned Earth, taking their technologies with them and plunging the planet into economic and ecological disaster. Devastated, the women decide to take their failed Láadan project back underground, desperately seeking guidance from...
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In Earthsong, the trilogy’s long-awaited finale, the Aliens have abandoned Earth, taking their technologies with them and plunging the planet into economic and ecological disaster. Devastated, the women decide to take their failed Láadan project back underground, desperately seeking guidance from their long-dead foremothers. The women discover an ingenious solution to the problem of human violence and seek to spread their knowledge—but has their final solution come too late?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781558614048 (1558614044)
Publish date: October 1st 2002
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Native Tongue (#3)
A gross disappointment after Native Tongue. I suspect Ms. Elgin didn't have much of a plan for the "long game" when she wrote NT, and how she resolved her story in this third volume turned out to be not very satisfying. I re-read Native Tongue and The Judas Rose periodically, but don't even curren...
I really didn't like this as much as the first two books in the trilogy. Whereas they had a plot, this third book was really more a collection of short stories, with little to tie them together. Frankly, it was neither very well edited nor very entertaining, and was missing the thought-provoking ide...