Oh-miles-WHAT

[jmtorres]

I er, realized that there's a volume I've reread less often even than Mirror Dance--that being Borders of Infinity.

Here we have this gem in Bel's introduction in Labyrinth: Bel Thorne, the Ariel's commander, was a Betan hermaphrodite, man/woman descendant of a centuries-past genetic-social experiment every bit as bizarre, in Miles's private opinion, as anything rumored to be done for money by House Ryoval's ethics-free surgeons.

Ryoval. What.

Comments

[carmarthen]

I would also like to put that in the context of Beta's attitude about reproduction in general, which is that you have to be licensed for it.

It might make sense in that context, but that wouldn't make saying an entire group of people is unlicensable for reproduction ethical. (And I'm not convinced the Betan licensing system is ethical in the first place.)