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Notes -
Babel by Rebecca Kuang, and boy oh boy is reading contemporary SFF a tiresome experience. Both the characters and the footnotes are constantly filibustering about colonialism and white people. Say what you will about Nora Jemisin, at least her anvilicious books didn't sacrifice worldbuilding for the anvils. Mostly.
I've only read Yellowface by Kuang. It was entertaining and enjoyable for the most part, but the main character, a white woman who steals an Asian American woman's manuscript (a historical fiction novel based on Chinese workers in the European theatre during WW1) after her sudden death seems to evolve into this unhinged and insane representation of what the author must see all white women to be under the surface. Interesting in the sense that I got an insight into what the author thinks of white people, which is that she does not like them one bit lol.
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