Talk:Higher Education (novel)

Undated comment
On what basis are we calling this future America a "feudal aristocracy"? To me it seemed more like an extreme extrapolation of current day liberal political correct bureacracy gone wrong. -user:vroman

This is a re-write
This novel is a re-write of a prior novel. What's the prior novel's name? ~ender 2015-07-15 22:44:PM MST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.167.45.30 (talk)

Cherchez la femme
Quietly, I think the critic who said that all the women in the book were sluts, girlfriend material, or sexually manipulative villains has simply not read the book. What about the Congresswoman who got Luban expelled? What about Vanguard's ferret-faced entrance examiner? What about Tess Shawm, the witty, Shakespeare-quoting physical examiner at the Native American reservation who tested Luban's motion sensitivity in the tilt-a-whirl? What about Gina Styan, the instructor on the space station who kicked Luban in the balls when he got too pushy with her? What about Barney French, the grumpy, demanding, oddly-named female instructor who barely survived a catastrophic accident in space several years earlier and was still grotesque-looking after the finest plastic surgery money could buy? (Moral: The details MATTER.) What about the female fellow student who figured out a slick way to clean out the asteroid smelter? MOST of the women in the story are intelligent, competent, sympathetic characters, and their sex lives are none of Luban's business, or ours. Even the marginally competent space slut Monkey offers to swap study help, not sex - she'll help Luban with history if Luban helps her with math. And if Luban DID see a few of his female peers as potential girlfriends, what's wrong with that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.232.121 (talk) 17:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Agree with youMikeR613 (talk) 19:43, 14 April 2016 (UTC)