Woman on the Edge of Time

Great world building. Particularly like how Piercy develops the vernacular for different groups and how that reflects the underlying forces and most importantly principles that those groups shift around. Sometimes I feel points are repeated and whilst there has been a lot of work to flesh out this world, sometimes the pages are busy with description and dialogue rather than momentum. The presumably expected crescendo toward the end therefore doesn't land so loudly for me. Protagonist is great, love her passion and inner world, felt fresh to be placed alongside her in a sci fi context.

This book presents an interesting problem. It is a great book filled with fantastic writing, engaging characters, discussions of things that matter, and so many parts that lead to a great work of speculative fiction - if not the most cheerful (parts of this book are tough reads and intentionally so). It is from 1976 and this is first time I have read it so many of the themes of the book I have run into elsewhere and may well have become tropes based on this book - what came first right? That made it hard for me to evaluate. I recommend it, highly but it also seemed so familiar that at times that familiarity took me out of the story, frustrating. My problems aside this is a great book.