GeekOutsider discussion

So, if you started reading along with us yesterday, then you're smack dab in the middle of a whole lot of weird (ah, sci-fi!). Samuel Delany really knows how to kick things off, starting with neurologically-induced slavery and a big oaf of a protagonist.

There's so much here already! But this particular idea struck me:

--Intelligence levels justifying labor & humanness
While our lady rescuer seems to have mixed feelings about the whole slavery deal, she poses a question that might say something about how slavery has managed to proliferate on this particular planet:
"But if I could, I'd make you free--before I made you serve me! I really would. Only I can't. So the only thing left is for you to make me free...Or happy. Is it the same thing? Is happiness slavery?"

What caught your attention most in these first pages?