Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Elizabeth Complex, by Karen Joy Fowler
The Elizabeth Complex was nominated for a Nebula in 1997. It's a meditation on the disrespect women faced, I think mostly in Queen Elizabeth's time, but part of the artsy appeal and eventual difficulty of this story is that it starts wandering around between different Elizabeth's lives (possibly not Elizabeths at all). It's an interesting device when lightly used, but by the end of the story it pretty much just confused me. OK, not great, 2 stars.
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