elizabeth’s Reviews > Babel-17 > Status Update

why are some writers so weird about fat people?! "the weight of her doughy cheeks distorted [her smile] into a porcine pastiche of itself" like that's insane. he describes insane sci-fi body mods with deference and directness, but a larger woman is simply too much apparently. In fact I think she's the first character to be described as "grotesque" and there's a guy with fake sabre teeth too big for his mouth to close