Dark Water's Embrace

Dark Water's Embrace is a novel by Stephen Leigh. Sequel is Speaking Stones.

The story of Anais Koda-Levin, a woman with a sexual deformity.

Reviews

Stephen Leigh's DARK WATER'S EMBRACE ($3.99, pb, 0-380-79478-0) is also an exciting novel from a well-respected writer. Leigh tells the story of a group of scientific colonists stranded on Mictlan. The world previously hosted an intelligent species, which mysteriously disappeared in the last thousand years before humans arrived. In the hundred years the human colony has existed, their struggles for survival have interfered with their original mission to learn about this world and its original inhabitants. But amid declining birthrates and rising mutations, the human struggle for survival is shown to be intimately intertwined with the mystery of the Miccail. The human colonists must also struggle with the tendency to turn oppression and prejudice into law, and homophobia, violence, and the nature of prejudice are all questions for this tiny society. One of the original colonists, a lesbian, was shunned and cast out of the colony. Anais, one of the newer generations, has non-typical genitalia and non-typical sexuality. Their stories are interwoven with that of one of the last generations of the Miccail, who were a three-sexed species, and their struggles with oppressions, violence and prejudice. Once again, we have a work of fine science fiction which shows us how important biology is to our destiny. -- LQ in Feminist Bookstore News, 1998

Editions

• 1998: Avon Eos ($3.99, pb, 0-380-79478-0)