I finished Them Bones by Howard Waldrop on the train last night. Less strange than his short stories in a way, but definitely not your run-of-the-mill science fiction. I'm working on My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn at home. I suppose it shows my ignorance about tribal cultures, but there was an interesting synchronicity among those two and Life Form, which I finished last week, in the area of inter-tribal conflict. I'd thought the deliberate introduction of ritualized warfare in Life Form was ludicrous until I read about the same thing in My Ishmael and again in Them Bones. (And in those latter two, what happens when one tribe doesn't play nice and starts slaughtering people).
posted by Kristin Buxton at 2:59 PM