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Daughters of an Emerald Dusk (2005)

by Katherine V. Forrest

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Late in the 22nd century, 4000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonise the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of the Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2002 novel, Daughters of an Amber Moon, told the story of the women left on Earth. Here she brings her trilogy to a close with this story of how the first generation born on Maternas have reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from that of the founders of the Maternas colony.… (more)
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I think I liked this one least of the series. The next generation of women on this planet had evolved/mutated into something bizarre. Oh, and Gaia comes into things, which is both cliched and yet.. there was an interesting take on it once you got to the end.But it also read like porn in places. They communicate by sex? Really? That was necessary? And it's not even consensual at first, not really, so that was troublesome. It might be harsh to call it gangrape, but when you try to explain why it's _not_, well.. that's really difficult to do. And just because they're all women (or evolved, mutated women) does not make it any better.So I'm inclined to tell people to read the first book in this series and skip the others. ( )
  Jellyn | Jul 23, 2012 |
This is truly a piece a work. Really. This book is chock full of allusions to lesbian sex. I mean, come on. They live in “Amazonia.” The walk around naked. They drink juice from giant flowers after walking up on top of a fluid mound. Oh, and they’re polyamorous. The theme of the story is the Gaia theory, the whole mother-earth planet thing. There just isn’t much substance to hold onto here. Not literary, not quite erotica. At least not the kind that works, although there are a few sex scenes. Not much of an emotional connection to the characters. It almost seems like it’s making fun of itself. ( )
  arsmith | Jul 25, 2007 |
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Late in the 22nd century, 4000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonise the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of the Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2002 novel, Daughters of an Amber Moon, told the story of the women left on Earth. Here she brings her trilogy to a close with this story of how the first generation born on Maternas have reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from that of the founders of the Maternas colony.

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