![]() ![]() Such bluntness isn’t uncommon in fantasy novels. Stop it.” She felt bad because it was true… if she didn’t admit she was doing something wrong in the first place, how could she possibly fix it? The thought that it might, even a little, left her feeling deeply uncomfortable… “Not seeing Viya as a queen because she’s not white is racist,” she whispered into the pillow. Not, she thought hastily, that race has anything to do with it. It required more mental agility than Saffron currently possessed to instantly confer identical status on a fourteen-year-old brown girl who was shorter than she was. For example, on page 185, Meadows writes: Admittedly, this book does have instances where such statements are a bit heavy-handed. Wasting no time to make a statement, Meadows plays out a scene many young women are familiar with: casual sexual harassment and the subsequent underwhelming response by those in power. The novel opens with Saffron, an average high schooler in the modern era. ![]() Genderqueer author Foz Meadows achieves wonderful diversity in her first novel of the Manifold Worlds, creating characters that are resilient, likeable, and completely original. ![]() As more and more articles pour out about bias in science fiction and fantasy, citing lack of diversity-both in the gender and race of the author and main characters- it’s nice to see new stories and voices emerging. An Accident of Stars is the kind of fantasy novel that’s been a long time coming. ![]()
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