Cradle | Literary Precedents
Sexual appetites and activity at times appear in explicit detail in Cradle, a factor that collaborator Gentry Lee admits to Clarke's biographer Neil McAleer were "overdone" in comparison to Clarke's usual discretion in addressing human sexuality. The male female conflicts of the novel are those raised for discussion in the news media and pop psychology books in the 1980s. Those very tensions, however, are not merely superficial commentary. If Carol Dawson and Nick Williams were not able to cooperate and over- come their hostilities to some degree, they would not have been able to...
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