Strange Horizons made their goal!

[kaberett]

Which means the entire AJ short story has been published! Part 1 and Part 2.

Discussion in the comments? YES I THINK SO.

Comments

[vass]

I feel weirdly icky about the gendering in this society; I am having to remind myself that having been given details about the physical configuration of Breq's body says nothing at all about her gender

*nodnod* me too.

You know what I would really like to see? Preferably in one of Leckie's own future stories, but in fanfic if nowhere else? I'd like to see a story in which some people from a culture that has binary gender automatically assume Breq is male, or that Seivarden or Anaander Mianaai is female. Bonus points if those people are certain about Anaander but have trouble reading Seivarden, or vice versa.

When it comes down to it, we don't know why the people from the binary gender cultures we've come across so far have made the assumptions they did, or that if we the readers met those characters in this world, knowing nothing about them, we'd draw the same conclusions; and I would love to see it shown in practice that (as Breq has already pointed out) the gender rules aren't the same in every non-Radchaai culture, and sometimes they're contradictory.

[I can't discuss this topic without launching into my canned rant about Seivarden and gender, but I've said it all already so I'll just drop this here.]

[kaberett]

YES ALL OF THESE THINGS AAAAAAAAH