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Refuse
When Antoinette Foucault's dream of motherhood circles the drain, an emotional outburst is expected, but not a revolution. Her official "Deviation" permits her to express otherwise-illegal discontent, but no one could predict it would be her key to an organization of misfits with designs on overthrowing the government.
Can she save the innocent before warring revolutions destroy them all? Only if she can do more, be more, than REFUSE.
In this irreverent, sarcastic novel, the heroine Antoinette conspires with freaks against an alien-run government bent on making all humans healthy by suppressing the expression of negative emotions. But Antoinette is an average person, with bad feelings and snarky comments and a predilection for toilet or bedroom humor.
When the fate of the solar system is in her hands, she's on the jump, willing to make love to as many lesbian alien octopuses as she must. With the help of her transgender doctor and her counsellor husband, she'll either take down the Colony or kill everyone trying. But will it be enough? Will it be on time?
Only if she can figure out exactly what she's rebelling against and be better than the human garbage her government takes her for, better than the average woman her society believes her to be, better than the hero revolutionaries expect.
Can she save the innocent before warring revolutions destroy them all? Only if she can do more, be more, than REFUSE.
In this irreverent, sarcastic novel, the heroine Antoinette conspires with freaks against an alien-run government bent on making all humans healthy by suppressing the expression of negative emotions. But Antoinette is an average person, with bad feelings and snarky comments and a predilection for toilet or bedroom humor.
When the fate of the solar system is in her hands, she's on the jump, willing to make love to as many lesbian alien octopuses as she must. With the help of her transgender doctor and her counsellor husband, she'll either take down the Colony or kill everyone trying. But will it be enough? Will it be on time?
Only if she can figure out exactly what she's rebelling against and be better than the human garbage her government takes her for, better than the average woman her society believes her to be, better than the hero revolutionaries expect.
219 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2017
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October 21, 2017
I am no expert in the sci fi genre, the extent of sci fi books I read being dystopian fiction. One thing I do know is that sci fi puts a mirror up to current society and social mores and takes them to their logical - and often absurd - extremes to show us just what we are.
Refuse is one of the most original, engaging and witty books in the genre I've read in a long time. Antoinette is really having a hard time - she is unable to achieve a dream of motherhood and has what to us would appear as an emotional breakdown. Under any other circumstance, this would be normal, even logical but on the colony of Psyche, where aliens expect humans to suppress the most unpleasant emotions, she is anything but emotionless. Living inside of Anty's mind is an exercise in sarcasm put to the service of survival, making you almost forget just how high the stakes are in a story where she literally falls into the role of revolutionary.
"If I'm average, humans are in trouble." Yes, they are. And Anty might be just the person they need.
I highly recommend this well-written, stylish work by writer Jennifer Roush.
Refuse is one of the most original, engaging and witty books in the genre I've read in a long time. Antoinette is really having a hard time - she is unable to achieve a dream of motherhood and has what to us would appear as an emotional breakdown. Under any other circumstance, this would be normal, even logical but on the colony of Psyche, where aliens expect humans to suppress the most unpleasant emotions, she is anything but emotionless. Living inside of Anty's mind is an exercise in sarcasm put to the service of survival, making you almost forget just how high the stakes are in a story where she literally falls into the role of revolutionary.
"If I'm average, humans are in trouble." Yes, they are. And Anty might be just the person they need.
I highly recommend this well-written, stylish work by writer Jennifer Roush.
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