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Available
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DAW (1977), Edition: 1st Printing
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LibraryThing member ediedoll
This is a sequel to Don't Bite the Sun, but it also works as a stand-alone book.
Set in the domed city of Four BEE, this tale concerns the rebellion of a Jang (teenager) who commits a crime of passion and faces exile. Far from her robot nannies, she learns to be self sufficient in the desert and
A fun book with good pacing, candy coated psychedelic imagery and just enough philosophy to keep it interesting, this is vintage Tanith Lee. Bonus points for the beautiful Don Maitz cover on the original Daw paperback.
Set in the domed city of Four BEE, this tale concerns the rebellion of a Jang (teenager) who commits a crime of passion and faces exile. Far from her robot nannies, she learns to be self sufficient in the desert and
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attracts followers, other Jang who are tired of their perfect lives and crave the authenticity of something real. In a world where beauty is commonplace and death is a hobby (one can always suicide to get a new body, male or female) life has little meaning. The ultimate rebellion is self-sufficiency, permanence and consequences.A fun book with good pacing, candy coated psychedelic imagery and just enough philosophy to keep it interesting, this is vintage Tanith Lee. Bonus points for the beautiful Don Maitz cover on the original Daw paperback.
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LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C
I first read and Bite the Sun and this sequel in my teens. Tanith Lee writes so lyrically with such evocative prose of this loopy dystopic utopia in a far away post-apocalyptic future. And yes, the domed city of Four Bee is both. What do you do in a hedonistic world where everything can be and is
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done for you by android servants? You can even change bodies and genders. Eternal vacation--or eternal childhood. Drinking Sapphire Wine picks up the narrative where the first left off with Jang exiled from her pampered existence--but she doesn't remain alone for long. And I rather loved what it had to say about the price of staying in--or leaving--Eden. And on your own two feet. Recently a book combining both short novels was released as Biting the Sun. Show Less
LibraryThing member ChrisRiesbeck
This is the second and longer half of the story begun in Don't Bite the Sun. Calling it a sequel is as misleading as calling the 2nd and 3rd novels of the Lord of the Rings sequels. This tells the real story of the main character's quest for some form of inner fulfillment. To get there, she has to
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be banished from the domed city where she has wasted most of her life. While exiled to the desert, hers is no hardship tour. She's provided with robots and supplies to meet every need except human companionship. But that soon changes. Rather than being the object lesson for the citizenry that the ruling Quasi-Robots had intended, her story becomes an inspiration for the sex and drug-addled population. Where the main character was pretty much as scattered and unthinking as everyone else in Don't Bite the Sun, here she has grown in maturity, intelligence, and determination. She accumulates a community, much in the the loner Josey Wales accumulated one in the Client Eastwood film. The whining has gone. She has a real mission now and the book is the better for it. Recommended. Show Less
LibraryThing member KimFalconer
I'm blogging about this right now! Tanith Lee is a beautiful writer addressing the hard problems of consciousness in the ancient way - through storytelling.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1976
Physical description
7 inches
ISBN
0879972777 / 9780879972776