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Beasts (Doubleday Science Fiction) (Hardcover)

by John Crowley (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Aesop rides again., April 5 2004
By Maximiliano F Yofre "Maxi" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beasts (Paperback)
Crowley proposes a strange universe to develop a new Aesopian world.
USA has disintegrated in a bunch of minor Autonomies and City States competing one with each other in an endless struggle. There is a feeble nominal Federal Government and a new emerging Union for Social Engineering trying to gain political control. In some earlier stage, scientists had done some bio-engineering experiments producing some hybrid new species: the Leos (grown from the improbable combination of human and lion cells). There are also other strange specimens: a fox-man, a dog with some undetected talents and, of course, lots of human characters, with their own goals and needs.
Combining all these elements, Crowley structures a very interesting novel. The Beasts traits, (fox's cunning, lion's braveness and endurance, dog's fidelity and self sacrifice) are potentiated by the mixture with human traits. Humans in their turn had been subject to over stressing situations in a changing background. So the interaction between different characters are always open to collisions due to so different natures and interests, the power shifting from one group to the other. At the same time all of them are also approaching to each other, seducing and being seduced, in a continuous dance in a spiral course.
There are some reminiscences and resonance from Aesop fables and his wise animals proposing intelligent lessons to humankind. A book to be tasted as a rare dish by sophisticated readers.
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