The sections in which we travel to the (possible) future(s) are a kind of updated version of H. I had to look back in the book to check that it was actually written 40 years ago. Other reviewers have described this as "dated", but what struck me was the remarkable way in which the themes of feminism, sexual diversity, and gender fluidity chime with the concerns of the present day. The central character lives in a world very unfamiliar to me, among the Hispanic American poor, bogged down in violence, addiction, and prostitution, and then trapped in a labyrinth of medical psychiatry which treats people only as examples of confidently misdiagnosed and brutally mistreated mental conditions. Challenging in places, but an interesting read.
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