"Nancy Kress - Always True to Thee, in My Fashion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)

тАЬMilitary,тАЭ Suzanne breathed. Sendil was right. It was perfect.
UniformsтАЩ and swords and guns and stern, disci-plined command
breaking into bawdy barracks-room physi-cality at nightтАж Officers
pulling rank in the bedroomтАж ThatтАЩs an order, soldier тАФYes, sir!тАж
The sexual and social possibilities were tremendous. And Cade
would never skip two seasons of fashion. She would come back from
the win-terтАЩs exile with everyone buzzing about her, and then Cade
in the uniform of, say, the old Royal GuardsтАж and herself
outranking him (sheтАЩd find out somehow what rank heтАЩd chosen,
bribery or something), able to command his alle-giance, keeping a
military bearing and so having to give away nothing of herselfтАж
It was going to be a wonderful spring.
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About the author:
Nancy Kress is well known for her deeply complex medical SF
stories, and for her biological and evolutionary extrapolations in
such classics as тАЬBeggars in Spain,тАЭ Beggars and Choosers, and
Beggars Ride. Her stories are rich in texture and in the details of
the inner life of character, and like only a few others, such as Bruce
Sterling and James Patrick Kelly, she manages often to satisfy both
the readers of hard SF and the self-styled Humanists. She is in fact
one of the few writers to incorporate much of the aesthetic of
Modernist fiction into SF. This story, however, from AsimovтАЩs, is
another side of Nancy Kress, the feminine juggernaut, uproarious
and unstoppableтАФwho would want to? The more you think about it,
the funnier it gets, rather like vintage Connie Willis. This is
first-rate satire, extending that tradition that flowered in the
1950s, that was perhaps the center of 50s SF, into the late 90s. My
ideal SF convention would have both Connie Willis and Nancy
Kress as co-guests of honor, always speaking at the same time and
picking up on each otherтАЩs lines.