Thread: "Racist" novel raising a ruckus
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Old 08-20-2012, 06:07 PM   #6
fjtorres
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The theme is hardly new.
Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold is generally frowned upon for playing with pretty much the same theme back in 1964:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham's_Freehold

Role-reversal stories aren't popular even when skillfully written.
Clumsy ones are surefire train wrecks.
Rubberneck at will, then move on..
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