books | Reading: Daybreak 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton, Part Five

what is this even.

Reading this book, I am reminded of a conversation I ended up in with a gentleman concerning a post-apocalyptic book called Earth Abides. The conversation revolved around the problematic racist elements I found in the book. Earth Abides was written in 1949 and has certain racist assumptions and stereotypes concerning black people. I found the book to be problematic and the main character obnoxious, though I fell in love with one of the secondary characters. I was informed that I had completely failed to understand the point of the book and that the racist elements were totally forgivable since the book was written in the forties.

Star Man’s Son/Daybreak was written in 1952, only a few years later and has few/almost no stereotypes or racist elements.

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