Becky Ferreira has described the novel as “highly unsettling”, due to its depiction of rape of enslaved people, particularly teenage girls, and other coercive sex acts. The sex acts described are performed “for the dual purposes of entertainment and controlled procreation”.[5] Ferreira found disgusting the novel’s fixation on the sexualization of adolescents. She notes that the adult characters are subjected to infantilization.
Bill Barr’s father also wrote some sci-fi.
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