Recent content by sydney1

Hi Poppy. Thanks for the welcome, always happy to meet someone else from our little corner of the globe. As suggested, I'll make myself known in the new members section.

As my name sugests, I'm from Sydney, Australia. I live in the area of the city known as the lower North Shore. Its a nice part of the world - close to the Harbour and national parklands (we have people conducting horse riding lessons in the big park at the end of my street every day), yet we're...

Yes, I don't think the author wants to provide the reader with an easy way out by giving clear cut "bad guys" to hate or "good guys" to cheer for. There are myriad moral ambiguities in the story - just as there are in life - even the horror of what is being done to the clones is marginally...

Hi, new here. And that's exactly what I got from this novel too. For me the whole organ harvesting storyline was really secondary to the central themes - social alienation, and mute acceptance of the constraints - whether they be class-based, economic etc - that people find themselves in. The...