AvonVilla@ramblingreaders.org reviewed Catseye by Andre Norton (Dipple #1)
The repression of women writers
4 stars
This book was always on the shelf in the school library, but I didn't get around to reading it for several decades. It tells the story of a boy from the refugee class who takes on his exploiters with the help of his animal friends, with whom he has a telepathic link. It's a fine story. I wish I had read it when I was 13.
Andre Norton was one of several male pseudonyms of Alice Mary Norton, and I pay tribute to her contribution to the genre. I can't help thinking how much better it would have been if she could have been out and proud from the start, as a woman in SF. We are poorer for the sexism which has pervaded the genre and so many other parts of our society.
This book was always on the shelf in the school library, but I didn't get around to reading it for several decades. It tells the story of a boy from the refugee class who takes on his exploiters with the help of his animal friends, with whom he has a telepathic link. It's a fine story. I wish I had read it when I was 13.
Andre Norton was one of several male pseudonyms of Alice Mary Norton, and I pay tribute to her contribution to the genre. I can't help thinking how much better it would have been if she could have been out and proud from the start, as a woman in SF. We are poorer for the sexism which has pervaded the genre and so many other parts of our society.