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PoindexterOglethorpe

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10. I think you would not be very dismayed at all with Alas, Babylon.

Reply to Codeine (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 31, 2019, 06:42 PM

Oct 2019

The racism simply isn't front and center, the way it is with the other book. It's more when the "colored" maid is on stage. 95% of the book is about the struggle to survive.

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I had the same experience Codeine Oct 2019 #9

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I grew up on Starship Troopers, Codeine Oct 2019 #7