A counterpoint might be if one looks at the background culture, rather than the main characters. In contract marriages, doesn't the woman always go to the man's household until a child or children have been produced? Even in the case of a female delm, doesn't she go to someone else's household and temporarily surrender her status as delm?
The characters you've listed are notable. Notable people are, by definition, doing things that are unusual.
However, these things said, I have two points.
One, that peaceful and equitable times rarely if ever make for good stories, and I think the Liaden stories are excellent. Thank you for sharing them.
Two, Liad is supposed to be an alien culture, it's not supposed to fit our world perfectly or to be our ideal world, and I for one don't want it to. I want to explore how someone else lives, and have some exotic to go with some familiarity. I want to see through someone else's eyes.
If this earnest young thing wants to see something she's comfortable with, she's literate enough to read so she's presumably literate enough to write ( ability in storycrafting being an entirely different matter), and she is just as free to create her own worlds are you are.
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Date: 2013-06-10 10:39 pm (UTC)The characters you've listed are notable. Notable people are, by definition, doing things that are unusual.
However, these things said, I have two points.
One, that peaceful and equitable times rarely if ever make for good stories, and I think the Liaden stories are excellent. Thank you for sharing them.
Two, Liad is supposed to be an alien culture, it's not supposed to fit our world perfectly or to be our ideal world, and I for one don't want it to. I want to explore how someone else lives, and have some exotic to go with some familiarity. I want to see through someone else's eyes.
If this earnest young thing wants to see something she's comfortable with, she's literate enough to read so she's presumably literate enough to write ( ability in storycrafting being an entirely different matter), and she is just as free to create her own worlds are you are.