So, this is a topic we talked about a little in class today, but since my paper is on posthumanism, I’m having a little trouble thinking about anything else, so I’m going to go for it anyways.
To my mind, this is one of the most anti-posthumanist novels we’ve read thus far in the class, which I find most interesting considering just how little the novel exposes us to advanced technology, since most of the storyline takes place in the primitive society of New Half-Way Tree.

One thing that struck me about several of the novels we've read thus far is that their speculation is based on human biology; specifically, the attempt to alter and control it. In the past I came across a word for this; post-humanism, a nebulous and ill-defined term, but one ultimately centered around the concept of building better humans. There have been aspects of this in most of the books we've read, such as...