Bujold has the rare ability of writing easy, fun, exciting stories about some truly dark themes (this book’s being child disfigurement, among others), and the combo works much better than you’d think.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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