Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

22 reviews

my_forest_library's review

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Child abuse, Abortion, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, and Murder

Minor: Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Violence, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Transphobia, and Suicide

aardwyrm's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Oof. So it's nothing against the book, but it's a weird time to read this one (July of 22).

The bit where they discuss shock at the idea of abortions being illegal in 2022 is a doozy.

It's not a flaw of the text, but of the moment, which is sort of the point of the text, so bravo, really. 

The book does a good job of juggling time travel and changing realities, slipping in needful details and surprises. Plot is really its strongest point. There's some occasional clunky dialogue; character speak out loud the same way they internally monologue, and infodump their emotions once in a while. But the worst this'll do is throw you out of the text a minute. It's an intensely, deliberately political book, which may not be everyone's choice, but it's an effective, well balanced time thriller, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Child death, Classism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Abortion, Torture, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Incest, Hate crime, Homophobia, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Cultural appropriation, Death, Vomit, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, and Blood

elishasbookreview's review

This book is hard-hitting for the current times we're in. I think the summary I read on my library's page was way over simplified. I was expecting something different I guess. This is toxic feministic in a way that's hard to handle for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Abortion, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Deadnaming, and Gaslighting

maresuju's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Murder, Sexism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Misogyny, Rape, and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Racism

fraxisle's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Abortion, Sexism, Child abuse, Violence, Mental illness, Rape, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Slavery, Transphobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Racism, Addiction, Drug use, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Blood, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, Pregnancy, Child death, Genocide, War, Colonisation, and Deadnaming

skl_hcn's review

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Racial slurs, Vomit, and Suicide

afestivalaparade's review

dark emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced

Whoaaaa, what a wild ride. I was not expecting such a raucous and wild feminist time traveling adventure, but wow am I glad I picked this book up. The setting is unique for time travel, and I loved the deep dive into Gilded Age America. I absolutely loved the deep philosophical dives into historical agency; they are conversations one doesn't normally find in time travel books and I am much more interested in liberal arts than the science of science fiction. (It's great to see studying history get its due.) I wish I had gotten to see more of the best friend's outcome; that thread dropped a bit in the fuzziness that endings to time travel stories usually require. 

I especially loved punk rock 1890s Chicago. The Gilded Age is a fascinating transitional time for the US, and one of my favorite eras. It's so thrilling to see Newitz is fascinated by the same themes I am: a country on the cusp of modernism, struggling mightily to define itself in a way that is completely orthogonal to its actual lived reality. Watching a country try to reinvent its past is timely story, one that becomes literal in this story. Comstock is absolutely a villain, and absolutely as over the top as he's portrayed in the book. 

The book goes to great lengths to highlight diversity, in the 1890s, 1990s, and 2020s. There are a few places that call out the need for intersectionality... Which makes the ending of the book a bit politically disappointing.

The saving of our real-life present feels so triumphant that it's easy to forget the threat to reproductive rights is still very real today, and even more so in countries outside the US. Some characters gesture at how the edit war is neverending, but Tess's story ends with the success of creating our current world -- and so it feels conclusive to the reader as well. I wish the effects of time edits rippled outside of the US, or more space was made for the other Harriet scientists to plan their next steps after celebrating their success. Instead, I was left with an odd feeling of "they did it! Hooray! They saved the day and made the world better! ...wait this world sucks too."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Suicide, Misogyny, and Incest

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Drug use, and Antisemitism

adbutschli88's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, Incest, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Deadnaming, Child abuse, and Abortion

kindaokbean's review

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Hate crime, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

yavin_iv's review

i love politics in my stories as much as the next leftist but this was unsubtle in a way that just did not feel like serving the narrative. right around the time i gave up, one of the two narrators is getting drinks with temporally-local friends in the 1890s--there's a weird segue about how the gin reminds tess of her friends back in 2022, which reminds her (specifically) of when her trans woman friend sued her academic department for discrimination in the tenure process, which... great! it's completely unrelated to what's going on in the scene! and then there's a couple pages of debate around the anarchist praxis of parsons vs goldman, which--cool! doesn't push the story forward! i'm sure there are ways to incorporate these thoughts and ideas into a story like this so that it comes across as more organic instead of Look At How Conscious And Well-Read I Am. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Transphobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Abortion