Season of the Witch
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491_9781600893193
She was the first woman he had ever been! An SF transgender classic! Chosen one of the Thirty Most Important Science Fiction Novels of the 1960s, Season of the Witch tells the story of Andre, a man who rapes and murders a woman in a post-apocalyptic future. A dangerously low population has resulted in an end to capital punishment. Instead of execution, Andre has his brain transplanted into his victims body, while his own body is given to an aging, brilliant scientist. Andres search for his original male body takes him through a series of physically and spiritually disorienting sexual encounters to an unexpected denouement during an Agape ceremony in the temple of a strange, hedonistic cult. No wonder Foundation called the book, A powerful tale of biological transformation and sexual identity. Or, that 20th Century Science Fiction Writers hailed it as, A special combination of science fiction and pornographic detail and rhetoric. The quality of the novel artistically justifies this radical strategy. In 1995 the book was filmed as Synapse (U.K. as Memory Run), introducing its unique mix of transgender and science fiction to a whole new audience. This paperback edition contains a new Afterword and s Filmograpy listing cast, crew, production credits.Here is what other critics say about this classic work:Razorblade fiction! -The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionWhere science fiction is often male chauvinist this might raise male consciousness. Worlds Beyond: A Critical History of Science FictionA good SF book and a rather better novel qua novel. Stine never offers an explicit sexual scene in standard cliché pornographical terms - each description brings a personal and original observation into play. Many of these observations are not erotic - they may even strike some readers as anti-erotic - but they ring with truth. A genuine work of erotic realism, written far above the standards of pornography. The body of the novel lies in the male prota
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