Ascension

I didn't care much for this novel. It had a lot of interesting ideas, such as physical disability, gender issues, genocide, and alternate universes, but it didn't seem to come together into a satisfactory whole. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that the majority of characters are female, with a token male here and there, the opposite of what you find in most science fiction novels. So it passes the Bechdel test in that there are women who have a conversation that's not about men. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to raise this above the level of mediocre.

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