I am not so smart: I am 80% through Ancillary Sword, the second book of the beautiful series that starts with Ancillary Justice.
There's a character who I dislike as a human being, and enjoy as a stock villain. He's a dick canoe.
And, throughout the novel, he is referred to as she. And my brain keeps rejecting that gender, and saying "that dude is a dude". Then I notice every character is a she.
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And I realize something emphasized really hard in the first book: the language doesn't have gender.
The characters don't care, and their words have to be translated into my silly language -- which does have gender. For those characters spoken of in only the main language, there is no implied gender whatsoever!
I only realized it when reading the author's webpage. Because I am not smart.
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Edit: Apparently I went through this with the first book, too.
ReplyDeleteFor a minute there I thought it took you a book and a half to realize all the pronouns were "she." ;)
ReplyDeleteSo which dude is the dude?
ReplyDeleteJosh Roby For a minute, so did I! I took some time between books, and apparently forgot this.
ReplyDeleteSean Leventhal the heir in the second book, who spends time in dalliance with servants.
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