Play Book Tag discussion

This award winning book from the early 1960s stars a female captain who is also a linguist, but that didn't make it a book I enjoyed. Rydra is a great kick-butt herione and atypical of novels of that day, so kudos to Delany for that, and if you like different sorts of sex groups and relationships, this belongs the the classic scifi books that have them (it happened in other ones as well, btw--lots of those scifi writers liked to write about sex!). They are not as modern as people think, just more out in the open and so it is in this book.

But I can't say that I liked any of the characters, some of the things in it were so boring to me--probably I've just read too many books with them in it or I've read some with better writing (such as the lingusitics aspect of it--The Book of Strange New Things and also The Sparrow are far better written scifi books that feature linguists in them.) I read this for a scifi book discussion and am not alone in not liking this book, although naturally there are some who enjoyed it.