This week for
class, we took the time to read Aye and Gomorrah to explore the fiction of
ideas.
This short story
played with what I found familiar and introduced just enough concepts to make
you feel out of place and transported to a whole new bizarre setting while at
the same time introducing you to a new different culture.
The story begins with
the protagonist and his fellow spacers talking about their travel course
through America, places us Americans are familiar with: Galveston, Houston,
etc. But just enough is mentioned to
make the reader realize that this is not our modern world, the idea of Frelks
and Spacers.
Spacers play with
the idea of gender and sexuality, they are castrated at a young age and are
destined to work away from Earth. The Frelks are fascinated by the Spacers,
especially because of this. The Frelk that the protagonist Spacer comes across,
constantly asks the Spacer about his (possible) asexuality., something not too
far or different from our contemporary world. And considering the Frelks offer
to pay the Spacers for their time, does this lead to some form of prostitution,
even though the Spacers lack the sexual responses.
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