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Sep. 18th, 2024 06:28 pmAt Readercon ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti and I succumbed to the lure of an incredibly cheap copy of Anne McCaffrey's first-ever novel, Restoree, which neither of us had read, because .... I don't know. I have no rational explanation. It's been fifteen years at least since I read a McCaffrey and it would have been so easy to keep the streak going, and yet.
Restoree involves plucky young New York City girl Sara getting abducted by aliens, undergoing terrifying surgery, and awakening in what seems to be a strange sort of asylum where she's tasked with caretaking an apparently catatonic patient.
On the downside, she has no idea what has happened to her, there's been a horrifying violation of her bodily autonomy, and she's surrounded by sinister doctors who have her in their complete power and don't seem to expect her or her patient to have any mind of their own.
On the upside: the aliens really fixed up her nose! she's always hated her nose but her parents would never let her do anything about it ['only Jewish girls get nose jobs' ... ah, 1967] and she is JUST thrilled about the new one :D
( I'm just gonna spoil the whole plot of this book but tbh the nose job is already by far the wildest part )
genarti and I succumbed to the lure of an incredibly cheap copy of Anne McCaffrey's first-ever novel, Restoree, which neither of us had read, because .... I don't know. I have no rational explanation. It's been fifteen years at least since I read a McCaffrey and it would have been so easy to keep the streak going, and yet. Restoree involves plucky young New York City girl Sara getting abducted by aliens, undergoing terrifying surgery, and awakening in what seems to be a strange sort of asylum where she's tasked with caretaking an apparently catatonic patient.
On the downside, she has no idea what has happened to her, there's been a horrifying violation of her bodily autonomy, and she's surrounded by sinister doctors who have her in their complete power and don't seem to expect her or her patient to have any mind of their own.
On the upside: the aliens really fixed up her nose! she's always hated her nose but her parents would never let her do anything about it ['only Jewish girls get nose jobs' ... ah, 1967] and she is JUST thrilled about the new one :D
( I'm just gonna spoil the whole plot of this book but tbh the nose job is already by far the wildest part )
