Passing For Human

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Passing for Human by Jody Scott

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I'm not sure how exactly I came to learn of this book. I think it was mentioned at a panel on "obsurce books you should read" at Capricon, a Chicago-area science fiction convention. Well, whoever mentioned the book was right - you should read it.

The ebook description on Amazon says it is "one of the 10 weirdest science fiction novels you've ever read" and I heartily agree with that sentiment. Written in 1977, the book stars Benaroya, a dolphin-like alien from a highly-advanced race. She's an anthropologist and is visiting then-modern Earth. She is able to download herself into human bodies, such as a copy of Emma Peel or Virginia Woolf. While expressing her opinions about the (to her) Stone Age humans, she's in a struggle with another alien race over the fate of Earth.

This book is hard to describe because it's so weird. I'll just say, go read it.



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