![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the resolution is somewhat pat-and an obvious plug for Starhawk's philosophy-the story is moving and absorbing. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk: 9780553373806 : Books An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between. Margot Adler, Author of Drawing Down The Moon. ![]() However, she creates memorable characters-a young midwife, a broken musician, an old Witch-Woman-and skillfully conveys their emotions in gripping, sometimes harrowing scenes set against vivid backdrops. An extraordinary book stands in the great tradition of political and philosophical novels. Starhawk delivers her message with a heavy hand and several cliches: her besieged utopia echoes the liberal politics and ecofeminism of her nonfiction her dystopia features the overused SF bugbear of Christian fanaticism. After 20 years of uneasy peace, the south's armies mass to invade the north, whose militantly nonviolent denizens must decide how to defend themselves without compromising their pacifism. Drought-plagued southern California suffers under an oppressive, militaristic, technocratic regime that spouts a perverted Christian ideology. In ecologically devastated mid-21st-century California, San Francisco is a precariously maintained oasis, its society based on egalitarianism and environmentalism, its deeply spiritual populace possessed of psychic and mystical powers. In her sometimes clumsy but compelling first novel, the author of The Spiral Dance (a central work in the women's spirituality movement) considers two possible futures for America. ![]()
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