Jan 1, 2010
Like several other novels of the Hainish series, The Telling brings a representative of the Ekumen, a benevolent interplanetary organization, into a cultural conflict on an alien planet. Sutty Dass is insecure in her first assignment, mainly because of scars that she carries from growing up on Earth. She spent her childhood in India and Canada, fleeing the Unists, Christian fundamentalists bent upon world domination, on destroying all knowledge except the one true book, the Bible. She was a lesbian at a time when the Unists were attempting to erase all sexual “deviance.”...
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