Carolyn Ives Gilman es una autora cuyas obras se adentran en los reinos de la ciencia ficción y la fantasía. Su escritura, informada por su experiencia profesional como historiadora de la historia de América del Norte, explora intrincados temas de género y poder con una perspectiva única. A través de sus narrativas convincentes, Gilman ofrece exploraciones perspicaces de la condición humana y las estructuras sociales. Su contribución literaria reside en su capacidad para entrelazar la profundidad histórica con conceptos especulativos, creando historias que invitan a la reflexión y resultan atractivas.
Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. A crew member is found murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in truth home to a native blind populace, who navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.
Tedla is young, beautiful and blond but is neither he nor she. On a far-off world, an asexual class of blands exists to serve their fellow humans, protected and isolated from contact with the rest of the universe. But no bland has ever left its sheltered homeworld--until now. Tedla has been found in an alley light-years away from its planet. And it has just tried to commit suicide. Val, an expert in alien cultures, helps Tedla recuperate and in doing so, uncovers the secret tortured world of the blands.